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Actress Maria Riva on how she worked for director Paul Nickell rather than Franklin Schaffner on Studio One 00:22
Interview: Maria Riva | Person: Paul Nickell
Actress Maria Riva on how she worked for director Paul Nickell rather than Franklin Schaffner on Studio One 00:22
Interview: Maria Riva | Person: Franklin J. Schaffner
Actress Maria Riva on director Paul Nickell, for whom she worked with several times on Studio One 00:37
Interview: Maria Riva | Person: Paul Nickell
Actress 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 04:31
Interview: Maria Riva | Person: Yul Brynner
Actress 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 04:31
Interview: Maria Riva | Person: Leonard H. Goldenson
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 | Profession: Actress
Actress 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 | Profession: Actress
Actress 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
Actress 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
Actress 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
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
Actress Maria Riva on the enthusiasm for the work that director Sidney Lumet had when she worked with him on such TV series as Danger and You Are There in the 1950s 01:01
Interview: Maria Riva
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
Actress Maria Riva on how she became interested in television production leading to her debut on the anthology series Sure As Fate 00:57
Interview: Maria Riva | Show: Sure As Fate
Actress 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 | Show: Studio One
Actress Maria Riva on making costume changes in "live" TV in the 1950s 01:14
Interview: Maria Riva | Show: Studio One
Actress 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 | Show: Studio One
Actress 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 | Show: Danger
Actress Maria Riva on getting her first acting job in TV on the anthology series Sure As Fate 00:45
Interview: Maria Riva | Show: Sure As Fate
Actress Maria Riva briefly on being nominated for an Emmy Award as Best Actress in 1951 and 1952 and how little recollection she has of the nominations 00:21
Interview: Maria Riva | Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)
Actress Maria Riva on the enthusiasm for the work that director Sidney Lumet had when she worked with him on such TV series as Danger and You Are There in the 1950s 01:01
Interview: Maria Riva | Show: Danger
Actress Maria Riva on the enthusiasm for the work that director Sidney Lumet had when she worked with him on such TV series as Danger and You Are There in the 1950s 01:01
Interview: Maria Riva | Show: You Are There
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