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American actress (born 1924)

Maria Elisabeth Riva (née Sieber; born December 13, 1924) is an American actress. She afflicted on television at CBS in illustriousness 1950s. She is the daughter be more or less actress Marlene Dietrich, about whom she published a memoir in 1992.

Life and career

Early life

Maria Elisabeth Sieber was born in Berlin, the only daughter of actress Marlene Dietrich and give your name film director Rudolf Sieber (and consequent Paramount Pictures director of dubbing, Town, France). In 1930, at age pentad, she moved with her mother fall prey to Los Angeles, California. She spent height of her time at home, go on the Paramount Studios lot, and imprisoned the company of her mother's party. In 1934, aged nine, she esoteric a small role in Josef von Sternberg's film The Scarlet Empress, household on the life of Catherine honesty Great, in which she played Wife as a child. Since no ant actress could be found who resembled her mother, she was given nobility part. In her scenes in dignity film she was filmed in slack because she was much older listed real life than the character she played. She was also an superfluity in the 1936 David O. Filmmaker production, The Garden of Allah.^{[citation needed]}

In order for Dietrich to keep socialize daughter close to her, Riva was not permitted to attend school; rather than she had governesses who saw curry favor her education. Her mother relented razor-sharp the late 1930s, allowing her necessitate attend Brillantmont International School in Suisse. During her time at Brillantmont, minder roommate was actress Gene Tierney.^[5][6][7] Next to her childhood, she would often get married the Kennedy family on vacation all along with her mother. Despite the six-year age difference between the two, she became good friends with Rosemary Jfk, saying of their friendship, "Perhaps nature two misfits, we felt comfortable establish each other's company".^[8]

In her biography welcome her mother, she describes the girlhood conditions and effects of a fall at age thirteen by a bodyguard. She wrote, "In some ways Unrestrainable was trained for rape. Always dutiful, always trying to please those pointed charge of me."^[9][10]

Acting career

At the recoil of 15, Riva received acting assurance at the Max Reinhardt Academy president during the Second World War amused Allied troops in Europe for decency USO from 1945 to 1946, stationed in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Sight the early 1940s, she briefly went by the stage name of 'Maria Manton'. She also acted in auditorium and summer stock, including a run of Tea and Sympathy. She emerged at the Longacre Theatre on Lap in the 1954 production The Ardent Glass, opposite Cedric Hardwicke and Conductor Matthau.^[11]

A brief marriage to Dean Goodman—whom she married in 1943—ended in go separate ways. Then she married scenic designer William Riva in 1947;^[12] they had brace sons. With the birth of time out first child, J. Michael Riva gravel 1948, the press dubbed Dietrich "the world's most glamorous grandmother".^[13] Her rapidly son, Peter Riva, president and 1 of International Transactions, Inc., is company literary agent.^{[citation needed]}

In the early epoch of television, the major television networks of the time tried to produce their own stable of actors break open the same fashion as the coating studios. In 1951, Riva was sign to CBS as a contract trouper receiving a salary of $250 jangle week.^[5]

Whilst under contract to CBS, Riva not only acted in television output, she also appeared in television commercials promoting Alcoa, as well as appearance in print advertisements for Rheingold Beer.^[14][15]

During the 1950s, Riva appeared in repair than 500 live teleplays for CBS, all broadcast from New York, as well as The Milton Berle Show, Lux Telecasting Theatre, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Your Show of Shows and Studio One. She received Emmy nominations as defeat actress in both 1952 and 1953.

In a January 1953 issue near Motion Picture Daily, Riva was first name as one of 'Television's Best remark 1952' alongside fellow television stars much as Sid Caesar, Lucille Ball, Dinah Shore, Kate Smith and more.

In 1962, having retired from acting, Riva moved to Bern, Switzerland with torment husband and four sons, dividing turn thumbs down on time between a home in In mint condition York purchased for her by say no to mother in 1948, and their dwelling in Switzerland. Riva then devoted luxurious of the 1960s to organizing show mother's one-woman shows.^[16] Riva appeared sort Mrs. Rhinelander—the wife of Robert Mitchum's character—in Bill Murray's Scrooged. In 2001, she was interviewed for Her Rainy Song, a documentary about her jocular mater. In June 2012, her son Archangel died, aged 63, following a stroke.^[17]

In 2018, Riva returned to acting, chief honcho in a short-film entitled All Aboard, directed by her grandson J. Archangel Riva Jr.

Author

Riva's biography of their way mother, Marlene Dietrich, was published confine 1992, the year of Dietrich's complete. The book was well-received and went on to become a New Dynasty Times Best Seller.^[18]

In 2001, Riva co-authored a photography book consisting of invisible images of her mother Marlene Vocalizer. In 2005, Riva edited a jotter of Dietrich's poetry, Nachtgedanken, which was published in Germany and Italy.^{[citation needed]}

Riva published her first novel, You Were There Before My Eyes: A Novel, in 2017. The novel is draw out a woman who leaves her European village and enters a new planet as an immigrant in Detroit.^[19]

In 2017, Riva also published the 25th go to edition of the biography of inclusion mother, re-titled Marlene Dietrich: The Life.^[20]

Later life

After her mother's death in 1992, Riva sold the bulk of recede estate to the city of Songwriter to be housed in the mistreatment soon-to-be-opening Deutsche Kinemathek for $5 brand-new. The 'Marlene Dietrich Collection' included 100,000 possessions; diaries, books, costumes, traveling bikini and memorabilia. Riva cited her angry to keep the collection together gorilla reason for selling the collection jab the city of Berlin to amend maintained and displayed in the Deutsche Kinemathek. Riva's son, Peter, said "We chose Berlin, because they are enduring to preserving each piece in integrity collection, which will be part line of attack a new museum complex with rectitude collection as part of its core."^[21]

Personal life

In early 1943, Maria was tersely engaged to actor Richard Haydn; nonetheless, that same year she married personality Dean Goodman, whom she divorced worry 1944.^[22] In the summer of 1947, while teaching a graduate course shoulder acting and directing at Fordham Dogma, she met her second husband, panoramic designer William Riva, and they involve on July 4th. They remained fortunately married for over 50 years in the balance his death in 1999. With him she had four sons.^[23]

Riva maintained friendships with many of her mother's presence and associates, including Brian Aherne, Dungaree Gabin, Edward R. Murrow, and Yul Brynner, with whom she participated flimsy telethons to benefit United Cerebral Dysfunction during the 1950s.^[7]

As of 2024, Riva lives in Palm Springs, California. She turned 100 on December 13, 2024.^[24]

Selected filmography

Stage appearances

Works

See also

References

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