
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.


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1943

as Mother
1966

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as Self
1965

as Self
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1965

as Juanita Castro
1965
as Self (archive footage)
2006

as Mother
1952
as Sibyl
1957
as Self
1965
as Self (archive footage)
2006

as Self
1968

as Mother
1966

as Self
1965

as Juanita Castro
1965

1965

1965
as Sibyl
1957

as Mother
1952

as Body
1943
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