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Riva, Maria

LC control no.n 85262795
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3618.I832
Personal name headingRiva, Maria
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Variant(s)Sieber, Maria Elisabeth, 1924-
LocatedLos Angeles (Calif.)
Birth date1924-12-13
Place of birthBerlin (Germany)
Profession or occupationActresses Film historians Biographers
Found inHallmark summer theater. I lift my lamp [MP] 1952-08-17: credits (starred Maria Riva)
Marlene Dietrich, 2001: title page (captions by Maria Riva)
Wikipedia, March 21, 2017 (Maria Riva; Maria Elisabeth Riva (née Sieber, born 13 December 1924) is an American actress, film historian, biographer, and activist; she worked on television at CBS in the 1950s, becoming one of the first stars of early kinescope-era television; 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; a brief marriage to Dean Goodman--whom she married in 1943--ended in divorce; then she married scenic designer William Riva in 1947; they had four sons; her second son, Peter Riva, president and owner of International Transactions, Inc., is her literary agent; during the 1950s, Riva appeared in more than 500 live teleplays for CBS, all broadcast from New York, including The Milton Berle Show, Lux Video Theatre, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Your Show of Shows and Studio One; she received Emmy nominations as best actress in both 1952 and 1953; Riva semi-retired from acting in the mid-50s, but made a cameo appearance as Mrs. Rhinelander in Bill Murray's Scrooged; Riva's biography of her mother, Marlene Dietrich, was published in 1992, the year of Dietrich's death; in 2005, Riva edited a volume of Dietrich's poetry, Nachtgedanken, which was published in Germany and Italy)
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Associated languageeng