Maria Riva

Actress

Born: December 13, 1924 (100 years old)

Died: October 29, 2025

Place of birth: Berlin, Germany

Biography

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maria Riva, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography (7)

• Scrooged (1988, ★ 6.8)
• Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (2002, ★ 6.5)
• The Scarlet Empress (1934, ★ 6.9)
• The King Steps Out (1936, ★ 6)
• The Garden of Allah (1936, ★ 6)
• Studio One (1948, ★ 5.4)
• Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007, ★ 4.3)