Marie Menken

Known for: Directing
Born: May 25, 1909, New York, New York
Died: December 29, 1970
Movies: 31

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.

Upcoming Marie Menken Movies

For Leo Castelli

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

5.5

Chelsea Girls

1966

7.3

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

1968

5.6

Lights

1966

5.5

Glimpse of the Garden

1957

6.2

Go! Go! Go!

1964

5.7

Arabesque for Kenneth Anger

1961

5.2

The Geography of the Body

1943

5.5

Notebook

1963

4.7

Andy Warhol

1965

6.2

Visual Variations on Noguchi

1945

Filmography

2006	Notes on Marie Menken	Self (archive footage)
1968	Diaries, Notes, and Sketches	Self
1966	Chelsea Girls	Mother
1965	Andy Warhol Screen Tests	Self
1965	The Life of Juanita Castro	Juanita Castro
1965	Bitch
1965	Prison
1957	Narcissus	Sibyl
1952	Image in the Snow	Mother
1943	The Geography of the Body	Body

Directing, Writing & Producing

1968	Excursion	Director
1967	Watts with Eggs	Director
1966	Lights	Director
1966	Sidewalks	Director
1965	Andy Warhol	Director
1964	Wrestling	Writer, Director
1964	Lita's Party	Director
1964	Go! Go! Go!	Director
1963	Notebook	Director
1962	Moonplay	Director
1961	Arabesque for Kenneth Anger	Director
1961	Bagatelle for Willard Maas	Director
1961	Eye Music in Red Major	Director
1961	Mood Mondrian	Director
1961	Drips in Strips	Director
1959	Dwightiana	Director
1958	The Gravediggers from Guadix	Director
1957	Glimpse of the Garden	Director
1957	Hurry, Hurry!	Director
1957	Zenscapes	Director
1945	Visual Variations on Noguchi	Director

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