Maria Riva was born in Berlin in 1924 and is the only child of Marlene Dietrich. Riva performed in Germany and Italy as part of a USO troupe during World War II and taught acting at Fordham University. Riva has performed on Broadway, radio, television, and film and has been nominated for an Emmy.
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A woman leaves her Italian village and enters a new world as an immigrant in Detroit in this sweeping novel by a New York Times bestselling author. In a small village in Italy at the turn of the twentieth century, Jane chafes at stifling routine and tra... SEE MORE