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Maria Elisabeth Riva (née Sieber; born December 13, 1924) is a German-born American actress. She worked on television at CBS in the 1950s, becoming one of the first stars of early kinescope -era television. She is the daughter of actress Marlene Dietrich, about whom she published a memoir in 1992.
Jun 14, 2022 · In Marlene Dietrich: A Life, the icon’s daughter, Maria Riva, paints a damning portrait of the screen siren who raised her.
Aug 24, 2017 · Maria Riva, the only child of actress Marlene Dietrich recalls her mother in unflinching memoir, re-released 25 years after her mother’s death. The required sacrifices of stardom are laid bare.
Feb 4, 1993 · The daughter of Marlene Dietrich, MARIA RIVA (REE-va). Dietrich died last May at the age of 90, with her mystique still intact. RIVA has written a memoir, "Marlene Dietrich," (Knopf) which...
Maria Riva discusses her frank memoir about her mother, Marlene Dietrich, in this rare 1993 TV interview.
Daughter of Marlene Dietrich and Rudolf Sieber. Played Marlene Dietrich 's character as a child in The Scarlet Empress (1934) . While attending boarding school in Switzerland in the late 1930s, her roommate was actress Gene Tierney .
Marlene Dietrich with her daughter Maria, circa 1928. The child later became known as the actress Maria Riva.
Sep 25, 2017 · Celebrity. Dietrich's daughter: Witness for the prosecution. German actress and singer Marlene Dietrich was a polished and dazzlingly sophisticated film icon - but apparently a cold,...
On being Marlene Dietrich's daughter: "As a child I thought my name was 'Maria The-Daughter-Of'."
The full-scale, riveting, hitherto untold story of Marlene Dietrich as only her daughter, Maria Riva - from girlhood through most of her life her mother's confidant and companion - knows it...
Jan 1, 1992 · Maria Riva is the daughter of legend Marlene Dietrich, an androgynous star of the 1930s, 40s, 50s, and 60s. One would believe that a daughter would be the most biased person to write a biography but this is not the case with this book.
In this astonishingly honest biography of Marlene Dietrich from birth to age 73, her daughter Maria Riva reveals the truth about her mother as it contrasts with the sometimes embellished stories of the Dietrich legend.
Oct 31, 2013 · Marlene Dietrich's daughter, Maria Riva, speaking at the William J. Donovan Award® Dinner. The OSS Society. 4.58K subscribers.
May 3, 2016 · Dietrich and Sieber were married in a civil ceremony in Berlin on 17 May 1923. Their, and Marlene’s only child, daughter Maria Elisabeth Sieber, was born on 13 December 1924. Seiber and Dietrich lived together for five years and stayed married for the rest of his life.
Feb 7, 1993 · Marlene Dietrich was not the classic Narcissus of myth. When she looked in the reflecting pool, she saw more than an image to fall in love with; she saw one that needed improving.
Jun 6, 2017 · Maria Riva, the cosseted, adored daughter of Marlene Dietrich, has a big story to tell. She fills it with detail, her memory seemingly photographic for interiors, gowns, jewelry, her mother's endless stream of lovers and who said what to whom.
- Maria Riva
Jan 1, 1993 · Maria Rivera has written the full-scale, hitherto untold story of Marlene Dietrich - the Berlin child, the young actress, the wife, mother, lover and, for more than half a century, the international star - as no one but the daughter could.
- Maria Riva
Oct 4, 2022 · Maria Riva, Marlene Dietrich's only daughter, grew up in the diva's shadow. Today, at the age of 97, she understands many things in her mother's life. But not for everything.
Sep 18, 1992 · Whatever Marlene Dietrich earned during her fabulous career as one of the silver screen's most beloved sirens, there was little left when she died in Paris in May. Her will, filed Wednesday in New York, leaves nearly everything - about $350,000 in jewerly - to her daughter, Maria Riva, of Manhattan.
Jul 6, 2016 · It was there that Rosemary met the 13-year-old Riva, daughter of famed movie star Marlene Dietrich. Riva was raised in Hollywood, jet-setting with her mother and rarely spent time with...
Dec 26, 2016 · In her biography of Dietrich, her only daughter, Maria Riva, wrote that her mother’s legs “withered. Her hair, chopped short haphazardly in drunken frenzies with cuticle scissors, was painted...
After Dietrich's death, Riva published a candid biography of her mother, titled Marlene Dietrich (1992). In it Dietrich is shown as a cold, manipulative narcissist who treated Riva more like an assistant or extension of herself than a daughter.
Nov 19, 2022 · Produced by UFA Fiction, and adapted from the memoir “My Mother Marlene” by Dietrich’s daughter, Maria Riva, the five-part biopic will follow Dietrich from her early days in Berlin through her...
