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.
22 directing credits · 10 acting credits
Directing · 22
Glimpse of the Garden
1957
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
1961
Lights
1966
Andy Warhol
1965
Moonplay
1962
Bagatelle for Willard Maas
1961
Visual Variations on Noguchi
1945
Wrestling
1964
Eye Music in Red Major
1961
Dwightiana
1959
Sidewalks
1966
Notebook
1963
Excursion
1968
Drips in Strips
1961
Mood Mondrian
1961
Watts with Eggs
1967
Go! Go! Go!
1964
Hurry, Hurry!
1957
The Gravediggers from Guadix
1958
Zenscapes
1957
Lita's Party
1964
For Leo Castelli
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Acting · 10
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965
Chelsea Girls
1966
The Geography of the Body
1943
Narcissus
1957
The Life of Juanita Castro
1965
Bitch
1965
Prison
1965
Notes on Marie Menken
2006
Image in the Snow
1952