Marie Menken
Director
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.
Filmography
Chelsea Girls
as Mother 1966
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self 1968
The Geography of the Body
as Body 1943
The Life of Juanita Castro
as Juanita Castro 1965
Notes on Marie Menken
as Self (archive footage) 2006
Image in the Snow
as Mother 1952
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
as Self 1965
Bitch
1965
Narcissus
as Sibyl 1957