Marie Menken
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.
Acting
Movie
Chelsea Girls
as Mother
1966
Movie
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
1968
Movie
The Geography of the Body
as Body
1943
Movie
The Life of Juanita Castro
as Juanita Castro
1965
Movie
Notes on Marie Menken
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Movie
Image in the Snow
as Mother
1952
Movie
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
as Self
1965
Movie
Bitch
1965
Movie
Narcissus
as Sibyl
1957
Movie
Prison
1965
Crew
Movie
Lights
Director
1966
Movie
Glimpse of the Garden
Director
1957
Movie
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
Director
1961
Movie
Go! Go! Go!
Director
1964
Movie
The Geography of the Body
Cinematography
1943
Movie
Notebook
Director
1963
Movie
Andy Warhol
Director
1965
Movie
Visual Variations on Noguchi
Director
1945
Movie
Eye Music in Red Major
Director
1961
Movie
Hurry, Hurry!
Director
1957
Movie
Image in the Snow
Cinematography
1952
Movie
Dionysus
Cinematography
1964