Marie Menken
May 25, 1909 (115 years old) 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2006 · Notes on Marie Menken as Herself (archive footage)
- 1968 · Diaries, Notes, and Sketches as Self
- 1966 · Chelsea Girls as Mother
- 1965 · Andy Warhol Screen Tests as Self
- 1965 · The Life of Juanita Castro as Juanita Castro
- 1965 · Bitch as
- 1965 · Prison as
- 1958 · Narcissus as Sibyl
- 1952 · Image in the Snow as Mother
- 1943 · The Geography of the Body as Body