Marie Menken
Birthday: 1909-05-25 | Place of Birth: New York, New YorkMarie 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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Known For
Acting
Year
Title
Role
2006
Notes on Marie Menken
as Self (archive footage)
1966
Chelsea Girls
as Mother
1957
Narcissus
as Sibyl
1952
Image in the Snow
as Mother
1943
The Geography of the Body
as Body
