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Maria Riva
Actress + Memoirist
Female
Born
Dec 13, 1924
Age
88
Hometown
Berlin
Other Names
Sieber, Maria Eli...
Maria Riva is a German-American actress and memoirist. She primarily worked on television in the 1950s. She is the daughter of the actress Marlene Dietrich, about whom she wrote a memoir, which was published in 1992.
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CHILDHOOD
1924
Birth
Born on December 13, 1924.
1930
5 Years Old
Maria Elisabeth Sieber was born in Berlin, the only child of actress Marlene Dietrich and film production assistant Rudolf Sieber (and later Paramount Pictures director of dubbing, Paris, France). In 1930, at age six, she moved with her mother to Los Angeles, California.
1934
9 Years Old
In 1934, aged 9, she had a small role in Josef von Sternberg's film The Scarlet Empress, based on the life of Catherine the Great, in which she played Catherine as a child.
TEENAGE
1936
11 Years Old
She was also an extra in the 1936 David O Selznick production, The Garden of Allah. (see film credits 1936 and Universal NBC archives).
TWENTIES
1945
20 Years Old
She received acting training and during the Second World War entertained Allied troops in Europe for the USO from 1945-1946 (stationed in Frankfurt am Rhine, Germany).
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1947
22 Years Old
After a brief marriage to Dean Goodman (whom she married in 1943) ended in divorce, she married scenic designer William Riva in 1947; they had four sons.
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1948
23 Years Old
Michael Riva in 1948, the press dubbed Dietrich "the world's most glamorous grandmother."
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1952
27 Years Old
She received Emmy nominations as best actress in 1952 and 1953, respectively.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1992
67 Years Old
After her mother's death in 1992, Riva's biography about her mother was published in 1992 by Bertelsmann in Germany, and by Knopf in New York and in 12 other languages.
2005
80 Years Old
Maria Riva edited a volume of Dietrich's poetry, Nachtgedanken, published in Germany and Italy in 2005 (ISBN-10: 3570008746).
2012
87 Years Old
In June 2012, her son Michael died, aged 63, following a stroke.
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