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.
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as SelfAn epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
as SelfThe films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects...
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Chelsea Girls
as MotherLacking a formal narrative, Warhol's mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel...
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The Geography of the Body
as BodyA quotation from Aristophanes, "The desire and pursuit of the whole is called love," precedes...
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Bitch
as uncredited“Andy Warhol called Marie Menken and Willard Maas ‘the last of the great bohemians,’ and, in...
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The Life of Juanita Castro
as Juanita CastroA playwright taunts a number of actors into improvising a truly ridiculous but subtlely...
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Image in the Snow
as MotherA young male protagonist dreams of a muscleman hero, a black dancer, and a princess who gives...
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Prison
as uncreditedInspired by Bibbe Hansen's experiences in a juvenile detention center.
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