Marie Menken
Known for Directing
Details
Birthday: May 25, 1909
Deathday: December 29, 1970
Place of birth: New York, New York
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.
Actress
1966
1965
1965
1957
1952
Director
1970
1968
1967
1966
1966
1965
1964
1964
1964
1963
1962
1961
1961
1959
1957
1957
Writer
1964