Marie Menken

Born: 1909-05-25

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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Chelsea Girls

as Mother
Released: 1966-09-01

Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel...

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Bitch

as uncredited
Released: 1965-01-01

“Andy Warhol called Marie Menken and Willard Maas ‘the last of the great bohemians,’ and, in...

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Prison

as uncredited
Released: 1965-01-01

Inspired by Bibbe Hansen's experiences in a juvenile detention center.

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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

as Self
Released: 1968-03-01

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

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The Geography of the Body

as Body
Released: 1943-01-01

A quotation from Aristophanes, "The desire and pursuit of the whole is called love," precedes...

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Andy Warhol Screen Tests

as Self
Released: 1965-11-28

The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects...

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The Life of Juanita Castro

as Juanita Castro
Released: 1965-03-22

A playwright taunts a number of actors into improvising a truly ridiculous but subtlely...

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Image in the Snow

as Mother
Released: 1952-11-12

A young male protagonist dreams of a muscleman hero, a black dancer, and a princess who gives...

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