Maria Riva, who has died aged 100, made her name as a television actress in the early days of the medium, but was better ...

Maria Riva, an actress and author who spent much of her life as a self-described “handmaiden” to her mother — the German-born ...

Maria Riva, the only child of famed actress Marlene Dietrich, has died at the age of 100 — just weeks before she was set to ...

But Riva, who was Dietrich’s only daughter, laid the groundwork with her scintillating stories of her mother’s life out of the spotlight. Dietrich, whom Riva called “Mutti,” kept Maria close by on set ...

After achieving fame and fortune as one of Hollywood’s most sought-after stars, Marlene Dietrich was ready for some peace. The movie star spent the final 13 years of her life in Paris, where she kept ...

Marlene Dietrich was born in Germany in 1901. By the time she was a young woman in her twenties, she had earned renown in Berlin for her stage shows. All throughout the ’20s, Dietrich acted on stage ...

An exhibition dedicated to film legend Marlene Dietrich is slated to open at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery on June 16, 2017, running through April 15, 2018. It will be the first major ...

The actress Marlene Dietrich played cabaret singers, spies, vamps, a prostitute and Catherine the Great. With a gift for reinvention that makes Madonna look like a poseur, Dietrich fascinated ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Smith doesn't impersonate Dietrich in any strict sense. Rather he channels her ...

She was her mother’s handmaiden and aide-de-camp. In 1993, her blockbuster biography told of the awful price she paid.

Riva published a biography of Dietrich shortly after her 1992 death, in which she wrote: “I don’t think my mother knew what ...

After Marlene Dietrich’s death her daughter wrote a “Mommy Dearest” type book in which she revealed why she didn’t call the ...