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    1970-12-29

    1909-05-25117 years, 5 months, and 14 days old

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    Place of birth:

    New York, New York

    Adult:

    No

    Gender:

    Female

    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.

    Images Gallery

    Best Credits: 10

    Title
    Narcissus
    Sibyl
    10
    1956-02-06
    0.3454
    Image in the Snow
    Mother
    5
    1952-11-12
    0.3577
    Bitch
    8
    1965-01-01
    0.3834
    The Geography of the Body
    Body
    5.2
    1943-01-01
    0.5721
    The Life of Juanita Castro
    Juanita Castro
    6.9
    1965-03-22
    0.507
    Notes on Marie Menken
    Self (archive footage)
    5.4
    2006-04-20
    0.3786
    Andy Warhol Screen Tests
    Self
    8
    1965-11-28
    0.672
    Prison
    0
    1965-01-01
    0.2444
    Chelsea Girls
    Mother
    5.5
    1966-09-15
    0.8436
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
    Self
    7.3
    1968-03-01
    1.0394
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