Marie Menken

AKA: Marie Maas
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1909-05-25

New York, New York

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.

Crew Roles

Notebook
Director
Lights
Director
Go! Go! Go!
Director
Glimpse of the Garden
Director
Andy Warhol
Director
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
Director
Visual Variations on Noguchi
Director
Eye Music in Red Major
Director
The Geography of the Body
Cinematography
Hurry, Hurry!
Director
Dwightiana
Director
Wrestling
Writer
Wrestling
Director
Watts with Eggs
Director
Mood Mondrian
Director
Drips in Strips
Director
Bagatelle for Willard Maas
Director
Sidewalks
Director
The Gravediggers from Guadix
Director
Moonplay
Director
Dionysus
Cinematography
Excursion
Director
In Search of the Miraculous
Camera Operator
Andy Warhol
Cinematography
Image in the Snow
Cinematography
Moonplay
Cinematography
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
Cinematography
Lita's Party
Director
Lita's Party
Director of Photography
Lita's Party
Editor
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