Marie Menken
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 25, 1909
- Place of birth
- New York, New York
- Died
- December 29, 1970
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.
Movies with Marie Menken
- Chelsea Girls 1966 · ★ 5.5
- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches 1968 · ★ 7.3
- The Geography of the Body 1943 · ★ 5.2
- The Life of Juanita Castro 1965 · ★ 6.9
- Notes on Marie Menken 2006 · ★ 5.4
- Image in the Snow 1952 · ★ 5.0
- Andy Warhol Screen Tests 1965 · ★ 8.0
- Bitch 1965 · ★ 8.0
- Narcissus 1957 · ★ 10.0
- Prison 1965
Movies directed by Marie Menken
- Lights 1966 · ★ 5.6
- Glimpse of the Garden 1957 · ★ 5.5
- Go! Go! Go! 1964 · ★ 6.2
- Arabesque for Kenneth Anger 1961 · ★ 5.7
- Notebook 1963 · ★ 5.5
- Andy Warhol 1965 · ★ 4.7
- Visual Variations on Noguchi 1945 · ★ 6.2
- Eye Music in Red Major 1961 · ★ 5.4
- Hurry, Hurry! 1957 · ★ 6.3
- Watts with Eggs 1967 · ★ 3.0
- Moonplay 1962 · ★ 7.0
- Dwightiana 1959
- Wrestling 1964
- Mood Mondrian 1961
- Bagatelle for Willard Maas 1961
- Drips in Strips 1961
- Sidewalks 1966
- The Gravediggers from Guadix 1958
- Excursion 1968
- Lita's Party 1964
- Zenscapes 1957