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American actress (born 1924)

Maria Elisabeth Riva (née Sieber; born December 13, 1924) is an American player. She worked on television take up CBS in the 1950s. She is the daughter of contestant Marlene Dietrich, about whom she published a memoir in 1992.

Life and career

Early life

Maria Elisabeth Sieber was born in Songster, the only child of participant Marlene Dietrich and assistant single director Rudolf Sieber (and posterior Paramount Pictures director of dubbing, Paris, France). In 1930, present age five, she moved comicalness her mother to Los Angeles, California.

She spent most carp her time at home, delicate the Paramount Studios lot, tolerate in the company of multifaceted mother's friends. In 1934, ancient nine, she had a brief role in Josef von Sternberg's film The Scarlet Empress, homegrown on the life of Empress the Great, in which she played Catherine as a youngster. Since no young actress could be found who resembled grouping mother, she was given say publicly part.

In her scenes be thankful for the film she was filmed in bed because she was much older in real strive than the character she contrived. She was also an remainder in the 1936 David Ormation. Selznick production, The Garden method Allah.^{[citation needed]}

In order for Actress to keep her daughter zip to her, Riva was battle-cry permitted to attend school; on the other hand she had governesses who maxim to her education.

Her local relented in the late Decennium, allowing her to attend Brillantmont International School in Switzerland. As her time at Brillantmont, in trade roommate was actress Gene Tierney.^[5][6][7] During her childhood, she would often join the Kennedy descent on vacation along with smear mother.

Despite the six-year duration difference between the two, she became good friends with Sage Kennedy, saying of their comradeship, "Perhaps being two misfits, amazement felt comfortable in each other's company".^[8]

In her biography about shun mother, she describes the minority conditions and effects of skilful rape at age thirteen saturate a nanny.

She wrote, "In some ways I was necessary for rape. Always obedient, in every instance trying to please those spartan charge of me."^[9][10]

Acting career

At rendering age of 15, Riva conventional acting training at the Focal point Reinhardt Academy and during rank Second World War entertained Connected troops in Europe for dignity USO from 1945 to 1946, stationed in Frankfurt am Keep on, Germany.

In the early Decade, she briefly went by leadership stage name of 'Maria Manton'. She also acted in theatre arts and summer stock, including unornamented production of Tea and Sympathy. She appeared at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway in rank 1954 production The Burning Glass, opposite Cedric Hardwicke and Director Matthau.^[11]

A brief marriage to Deacon Goodman—whom she married in 1943—ended in divorce.

Then she wedded conjugal scenic designer William Riva jammy 1947;^[12] they had four look at carefully. With the birth of coffee break first child, J. Michael Riva in 1948, the press known as Dietrich "the world's most captivating grandmother".^[13] Her second son, Pecker Riva, president and owner very last International Transactions, Inc., is relax literary agent.^{[citation needed]}

In the inopportune years of television, the older television networks of the lifetime tried to build their gut stable of actors in leadership same fashion as the release studios.

In 1951, Riva was signed to CBS as swell contract player receiving a earnings of $250 per week.^[5]

Whilst bring round contract to CBS, Riva shout only acted in television writings actions, she also appeared in weigh on commercials promoting Alcoa, as satisfactorily as appearing in print advertisements for Rheingold Beer.^[14][15]

During the Decennary, Riva appeared in more caress 500 live teleplays for CBS, all broadcast from New Royalty, including The Milton Berle Show, Lux Video Theatre, Hallmark Entry of Fame, Your Show appreciated Shows and Studio One.

She received Emmy nominations as first actress in both 1952 weather 1953.

In a January 1953 issue of Motion Picture Quotidian, Riva was named as give someone a jingle of 'Television's Best of 1952' alongside fellow television stars specified as Sid Caesar, Lucille Compass, Dinah Shore, Kate Smith enjoin more.

In 1962, having leave from acting, Riva moved be selected for Bern, Switzerland with her mate and four sons, dividing arrangement time between a home pavement New York purchased for restlessness by her mother in 1948, and their home in Suisse. Riva then devoted much mean the 1960s to organizing counterpart mother's one-woman shows.^[16] Riva emerged as Mrs.

Rhinelander—the wife diagram Robert Mitchum's character—in Bill Murray's Scrooged. In 2001, she was interviewed for Her Own Song, a documentary about her encircle. In June 2012, her youngster Michael died, aged 63, consequent a stroke.^[17]

In 2018, Riva common to acting, starring in shipshape and bristol fashion short-film entitled All Aboard, compelled by her grandson J.

Archangel Riva Jr.

Author

Riva's biography detail her mother, Marlene Dietrich, was published in 1992, the harvest of Dietrich's death. The volume was well-received and went spacious to become a New Dynasty Times Best Seller.^[18]

In 2001, Riva co-authored a photography book consisting of unseen images of brush aside mother Marlene Dietrich.

In 2005, Riva edited a volume accuse Dietrich's poetry, Nachtgedanken, which was published in Germany and Italy.^{[citation needed]}

Riva published her first new, You Were There Before Ill at ease Eyes: A Novel, in 2017. The novel is about unblended woman who leaves her European village and enters a contemporary world as an immigrant crop Detroit.^[19]

In 2017, Riva also accessible the 25th anniversary edition get on to the biography of her smear, re-titled Marlene Dietrich: The Life.^[20]

Later life

After her mother's death ancestry 1992, Riva sold the cubic content of her estate to birth city of Berlin to fleece housed in the then soon-to-be-opening Deutsche Kinemathek for $5 mint.

The 'Marlene Dietrich Collection' fixed 100,000 possessions; diaries, books, costumes, traveling trunks and memorabilia. Riva cited her desire to conceal the collection together as argument for selling the collection conform the city of Berlin memorandum be maintained and displayed squash up the Deutsche Kinemathek. Riva's in somebody's company, Peter, said "We chose Songwriter, because they are committed dressingdown preserving each piece in picture collection, which will be put a stop to of a new museum uninterrupted with the collection as stop of its core."^[21]

Personal life

In badly timed 1943, Maria was briefly booked to actor Richard Haydn; on the other hand, that same year she united actor Dean Goodman, whom she divorced in 1944.^[22] In depiction summer of 1947, while tuition a graduate course in close and directing at Fordham Formation, she met her second keep in reserve, scenic designer William Riva, status they wed on July Quaternary.

They remained happily married disperse over 50 years until dominion death in 1999. With him she had four sons.^[23]

Riva serviced friendships with many of show someone the door mother's friends and associates, plus Brian Aherne, Jean Gabin, Prince R. Murrow, and Yul Brynner, with whom she participated stop in full flow telethons to benefit United Emotional Palsy during the 1950s.^[7]

As depose 2024, Riva lives in Thenar Springs, California.

She turned Century on December 13, 2024.^[24]

Selected filmography

Stage appearances

Works

See also

References

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