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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.


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Born:
May 25, 1909 In New York, New York
Movie/TV Credits:
8
First Appeared:
In the movie The Geography of the Body 1943-01-01
Latest Project:
Movie Notes on Marie Menken 2006-04-20
Known For
Poster of The Life of Juanita Castro
Poster of Image in the Snow
Poster of The Geography of the Body
Filmography
Movie Notes on Marie Menken Herself (archive footage) 2006-04-20
Movie Diaries, Notes, and Sketches Self 1968-03-01
Movie Chelsea Girls Mother 1966-09-01
Movie Prison 1965-01-01
Movie Andy Warhol Screen Tests Self 1965-11-28
Movie The Life of Juanita Castro Juanita Castro 1965-03-22
Movie Image in the Snow Mother 1952-11-12
Movie The Geography of the Body Body 1943-01-01