Directing
Community Rating
6.0
TMDB estimate
Born
May 25, 1909
Died
December 29, 1970 (age 61)
Born in
New York, New York
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.

For Leo Castelli
as Director
TBA
Notes on Marie Menken
as Self (archive footage)
2006

Excursion
as Director
1968

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
1968

In Search of the Miraculous
as Camera Operator
1967

Watts with Eggs
as Director
1967

Chelsea Girls
as Mother
1966

Lights
as Director
1966

Sidewalks
as Director
1966

Andy Warhol Screen Tests
as Self
1965

Andy Warhol
as Director, Cinematography
1965

The Life of Juanita Castro
as Juanita Castro
1965

Bitch
1965

Prison
1965

Wrestling
as Writer, Director
1964

Dionysus
as Cinematography
1964

Lita's Party
as Director, Director of Photography, Editor
1964

Go! Go! Go!
as Director
1964

Notebook
as Director
1963

Moonplay
as Director, Cinematography
1962