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    Marie Menken

    1909-05-25 (115 years old) in 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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    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
    74 %|Nov 23, 2013
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    Notes on Marie Menken
    54 %|Apr 20, 2006
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    Chelsea Girls
    57 %|Sep 1, 1966
    Drama
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    Andy Warhol Screen Tests
    80 %|Nov 28, 1965
    Documentary
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    The Life of Juanita Castro
    66 %|Mar 22, 1965
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    Bitch
    60 %|Jan 1, 1965
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    Prison
    0 %|Jan 1, 1965
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    Narcissus
    0 %|Apr 25, 1958
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    Image in the Snow
    50 %|Nov 12, 1952
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    The Geography of the Body
    54 %|Jan 1, 1943
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