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Actress Maria Riva briefly on Studio One producer-director Worthington Miner 00:19
Interview: Maria Riva | Show: Studio One
Actress Maria Riva on being the spokesperson (and learning how to demonstrate the use of aluminum foil on "live" TV) for Alcoa on The Alcoa Hour 00:59
Interview: Maria Riva | Show: Alcoa Hour, The
Actress Maria Riva on a gaffe that happened on "live" TV in the 1950s when the prop gun that actor Rod Steiger was using didn't fire— prompting him to instead say "bang" (possibly on Lux Video Theater: "Cafe Ami" [their only confirmed co-starring TV show]) 01:26
Interview: Maria Riva | Show: Lux Video Theatre
Actress Maria Riva relates the famed story that she'd heard (secondhand) regarding Lon Chaney's appearance on ABC's Tales of Tomorrow ("Frankenstein"), in which he thought the actual show was mearly the dress rehearsal 01:19
Interview: Maria Riva | Show: Tales of Tomorrow
Actress Maria Riva on how she didn't feel she was up to the challenge of the accent required for the Studio One show "The Education of Hyman Kaplan" 00:33
Interview: Maria Riva | Show: Studio One
Actress Maria Riva on how she worked for director Paul Nickell rather than Franklin Schaffner on Studio One 00:22
Interview: Maria Riva | Show: Studio One
Actress Maria Riva on director Paul Nickell, for whom she worked with several times on Studio One 00:37
Interview: Maria Riva | Show: Studio One
Actress Maria Riva on how she came to give up acting when she realized production was moving to Hollywood— having commuted for a time from New York to appear on such shows as The 20th Century Fox Hour: "Operation Cicero" in the mid-1950s 02:37
Interview: Maria Riva | Show: 20th Century-Fox Hour, The
Actress Maria Riva on making costume changes in "live" TV in the 1950s 01:14
Interview: Maria Riva | Topic: TV's Golden Age (1940s & '50s)
Maria Riva on how she became a contract player for CBS in the early 1950s, along with actress Mary Sinclair, John Newland, and (possibly) John Forsythe all of whom then worked on such CBS series of the day as Studio One and Danger 01:43
Interview: Maria Riva | Topic: TV's Golden Age (1940s & '50s)
Maria Riva on establishing herself as a TV star in the 1950s, and how little TV demanded of acting "talent" in the early days of the medium 01:28
Interview: Maria Riva | Topic: TV's Golden Age (1940s & '50s)
Maria Riva on a gaffe that happened on "live" TV in the 1950s when the prop gun that actor Rod Steiger was using didn't fire— prompting him to instead say "bang" (possibly on Lux Video Theater: "Cafe Ami" [their only confirmed co-starring TV show]) 01:26
Interview: Maria Riva | Topic: TV's Golden Age (1940s & '50s)
Maria Riva on the Golden Age of "live" TV in New York in the 1950s, exemplified by such classic anthology series as Studio One 01:04
Interview: Maria Riva | Topic: TV's Golden Age (1940s & '50s)
Maria Riva on the Golden Age of "live" TV in New York in the 1950s, exemplified by such classic anthology series as Studio One 01:04
Interview: Maria Riva | Topic: Anthology Drama
Maria Riva on the difference to the public between a movie star and a television actor as she noted when approached by a fan while accompanying her mother Marlene Dietrich in the 1950s 01:33
Interview: Maria Riva | Topic: Fame and Celebrity
Maria Riva on the difference to the public between a movie star and a television actor as she noted when approached by a fan while accompanying her mother Marlene Dietrich in the 1950s 01:33
Interview: Maria Riva | Topic: Pop Culture
Maria Riva on appearing on a series of cerebral palsy telethons in the 1950s at the request of Yul Brynner (the airtime donated by ABC President Leonard Goldenson), and trying to dispel the stigma of the disease 01:26
Interview: Maria Riva | Topic: Health and Medicine
Maria Riva on appearing on a series of cerebral palsy telethons in the 1950s at the request of Yul Brynner (the airtime donated by ABC President Leonard Goldenson), and trying to dispel the stigma of the disease 01:26
Interview: Maria Riva | Topic: Historic Events and Social Change
Actress Maria Riva on a gaffe that happened on "live" TV in the 1950s when the prop gun that actor Rod Steiger was using didn't fire— prompting him to instead say "bang" 01:26
Interview: Maria Riva
On the founding of the Max Reinhardt Academy and studying and teaching there (as well as how it changed hands and became more of a "factory" for making money); on how she was often cast as a "poor man's Dietrich" not only because of her association to her mother but also because she could also provide her own costuming 07:44
Interview: Maria Riva
On appearing on the cover of Life magazine with her mother, at a time when Maria was potentially the bigger star; on screen testing poorly in Hollywood; on helping Charles Laughton once on radio, when he fell one page behind, having discarded the page by accident; on the relationship she had with her mother's friends/suitors 11:37
Interview: Maria Riva
On helping her mother in her later career; on appearing on an array of comedic shows including Your Show of Shows and The Martha Raye Show; on working on Easter Sunday and having to celebrate the holiday with her family on Monday; on rehearsals in live TV 14:34
Interview: Maria Riva
On two mishaps in TV that involved injuries on the set— once where she herself was hurt during dress rehearsal and yet went on with the show; on "proposing" to her husband 10:00
Interview: Maria Riva
On her children: J. Michael, Peter, Paul, and David; on her second career as a writer; on the feature film Scrooged; on the Golden Age of Television; on the star system in Hollywood 15:52
Interview: Maria Riva
Actress Maria Riva on the founding of the Max Reinhardt Academy, studying and teaching there (as well as how it changed hands and became more of a "factory" for making money) 01:31
Interview: Maria Riva | Person: Max Reinhardt
Actress Maria Riva on appearing on the cover of Life magazine with her mother Marlene Dietrich, at a time when Maria was potentially the bigger star 00:42
Interview: Maria Riva | Person: Marlene Dietrich
Actress Maria Riva on encouraging Grace Kelly in her movie career (after seeing it wasn't right for herself) 01:16
Interview: Maria Riva | Person: Grace Kelly
Actress Maria Riva on helping Charles Laughton once on radio, when he fell one page behind, having discarded the page by accident 01:31
Interview: Maria Riva | Person: Charles Laughton
Actress Maria Riva on helping Charles Laughton once on radio, when he fell one page behind, having discarded the page by accident (and a similar situation regarding Clark Gable) 01:31
Interview: Maria Riva | Person: Clark Gable
Actress Maria Riva briefly on working with Orson Welles in radio 00:28
Interview: Maria Riva | Person: Orson Welles