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Marie Menken

Biography

Marie Menken was born Marie Menkevicius in New York City on May 25, 1909, the daughter of Catholic Lithuanian immigrants. She grew up in Brooklyn with a brother and a sister, in a home used to frequent financial difficulties. Both she and her sister Adele later changed their surname to Menken. Marie Menken and Willard Maas had got married in 1937, moving into a Brooklyn penthouse at 62 Montague Street which they would inhabit until their deaths. She died on December 29, 1970. Four days after her death, on January 2, 1971, Willard Maas died.

Known For

Image in the Snow
Image in the Snow
Bitch
Bitch
The Geography of the Body
The Geography of the Body
The Life of Juanita Castro
The Life of Juanita Castro
Prison
Prison

Filmography

2013 Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
2006 Notes on Marie Menken
as Self (archive footage)
1966 Chelsea Girls
as Mother
1965 Andy Warhol Screen Tests
as Self
1965 The Life of Juanita Castro
as Juanita Castro
1965 Bitch
as
1965 Prison
as
1958 Narcissus
as Sibyl
1952 Image in the Snow
as Mother
1943 The Geography of the Body
as Body