Marie Menken

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1909-05-25

Deathday 1970-12-29 (61 years old)

Place of Birth New York, New York

Also Known As Marie Maas

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

Director

1968
Excursion

as Director

1967
Watts with Eggs

as Director

1966
Lights

as Director

1966
Sidewalks

as Director

1965
Andy Warhol

as Director

1964
Go! Go! Go!

as Director

1964
Wrestling

as Director

1963
Notebook

as Director

1962
Moonplay

as Director

1961
1961
Mood Mondrian

as Director

1961
Drips in Strips

as Director

1959
Dwightiana

as Director

1957
1957
Hurry, Hurry!

as Director

Actor

2006
Notes on Marie Menken

as Herself (archive footage)

1966
Chelsea Girls

as Mother

1965
The Life of Juanita Castro

as Juanita Castro

1965
1965
1958
Narcissus

as Sibyl

1952

Crew

1965
Andy Warhol

as Cinematography

1964
Dionysus

as Cinematography

1962
Moonplay

as Cinematography

1961
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger

as Cinematography

1952
Image in the Snow

as Cinematography

1943
The Geography of the Body

as Cinematography

Writer

1964
Wrestling

as Writer

Camera

1967
In Search of the Miraculous

as Camera Operator