Biography

Marie Menken was born on May 25, 1909 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a director and cinematographer, known for The Life of Juanita Castro (1965), The Gravediggers from Guadix (1960) and Prison (1965). She was married to Willard Maas. She died on December 29, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

Daughter of Lithuanian immigrants.

She and husband Willard Maas were the basis of the characters of Martha and George in Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".