Marie Menken
Directing
May 25, 1909
Died December 29, 1970 (61 years old)
New York, New York
10
Acting Credits
21
Directed
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...
Known For
Filmography
Notes on Marie Menken
2006
as Self (archive footage)
5.4
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
as Self
7.3
Chelsea Girls
1966
as Mother
5.5
Bitch
1965
8
The Life of Juanita Castro
1965
as Juanita Castro
6.9
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965
as Self
8
Prison
1965
Narcissus
1957
as Sibyl
10
Image in the Snow
1952
as Mother
5
The Geography of the Body
1943
as Body
5.2