Love Maria. After reading her magnificent book on her mother is impossible not to feel a friend of hers a little bit. She was nearly 90 in this video! Such an amazing, clear mind she has!
If you read the book, you know that Maria was the real legend.HER words helped countless victims of abuse not only survive but TRIUMPH! She gave real love and talent to what has become three generations. Thank You Maria.
@@britannia5370 You know what isn't classy ? Posting multiple hateful comments directed to someone you have never met just because she happens to have some thing to say about one of your idols. If you are older than, 16 years old (which I'm sure you are) this type of behaviour is concerning.
When she was young she was strikingly beautiful in her own right. She was a very accomplished and active actress. Here, you can see the beauty of an aged woman. She wrote a much criticized bio about her mother. But she wrote the truth as she "lived within it. " She does honor her mother.
but we are supposed to honor mother and father. I never liked her for putting Marlene down after her death all the time. Did she not profit greatly from her mother's fame and money ? And besides the "truth" is no excuse for ev.thing. Some things should remain private; if you sully your nest, you sully yourself. Could it be jealousy of her mom ?
Maria here gave a beautiful speech. Such an intelligent and brilliant woman, if her parents took more interest in her, she would of been a great diplomat.
Hey Italian. I understand you have a problem with your coloured heritage. Please don't take your grudge, out on me. Learn to love yourself and others. And don't judge.
"If you have international fame, real international fame, and you do something with it as a weapon against evil." No wonder Marlene Dietrich still remains a legend. Ms. Riva surely gets her mother's beauty and class.
If you haven't seen it, you should watch the documentary Hear My Song about Marlene Dietrich's heroic activity during WWII. Whatever her faults, Ms. Dietrich was a brave heroine in the fight against her own homeland.
Actually, Riva claims that Dietrich allowed her to be raped by a woman. Goes even further saying she along with Dietrich's husband made Dietrich's mistress so depressed she died. (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O6UY5MwhnbA.html) I find amazing that Riva is able to see the good and bad of her mother with no fear.
First time I ever listen to Maria. I’m very impressed at what a good public speaker she is. Amazing lady Maria. She brought me to tears. As an immigrant my self!!! I have to say I fully understand what she means by America being precious !!!
My husband and I attended he Galla when Ms. Riva spoke that night.... She left a profound impression on the both of us and feel most grateful to have been able to be apart of the OSS dinner where she spoke about the much deserved honor her mother received that night.
"For those of you have never experienced it, America... The freedom of this country.... is never more apparent or more precious than when you flee and need her to house you. There is a strength in our country. I am a naturalized citizen. It's a feeling that you never get over. You belong. You have made your roots, and yet you are always looking over your shoulder. And you always have to remember what it took to be able to say, I am a citizen of these United States." Amazing words. Wonder if those in the room clapping, would feel that way today toward the Syrian refugees. Fact is, we must. It's so important to listen to her words.
+Laurel Denver Nope, the economic refugees flooding the Western world are of a different culture (read: not European Christian) that hates benevolent foreign host countries to which they flee.
America has no problems with "legal" immigration. A country cannot flood it's boundaries with millions of people without knowing what is coming. Sovereign nations have borders...all countries. They need to be protected and honored; otherwise you have no country.
Laurel Denver ‘looking over your shoulder’ because now the US has taken a menacing, inward looking paranoid turn and may yet revoke some people’s rights to be citizens; forgetting that the US was forged by people fleeing oppression, who stole land from the indigenous people, enslaved Africans; and now act like they are the First Nation. Shame on Trump and all those thieving, treachourous neo cons. They are destroying the dream with selfish greed, dressed up as Christian values. Christ would vomit if he were present! So, keep looking over your shoulder.....you might be next to be called unamerican, like the Mexican-americans, are now!
I’m reading her biography on Dietrich now. What an excellent read. I have read all the “Hollywood children tell alls” for the most part but this biography by Riva so far has neither the hate element of “Mommie Dearest” nor the bitterness of “My Mother’s Keeper”. Maria Riva writes openly, honestly, and objectively on many occasions about her mother whom you could tell she found difficult to understand. It reads like a dramatic novel interlaced with comedies of error and unspoken, private heartaches and longings for normalcy. It ultimately made me quite disillusioned by the Dietrich image, insofar that it was totally and completely cultivated, rigidly curated, and belligerently enforced/codified, no matter what casualties were in the blast radius of Marlene’s iron will and lack of flexibility. Ultimately it is a sad book but one worthy of film admirers.
El documental, con su música encantadora, era demasiado breve, informativo aún del período más trágico en la historia americana. Gracias, Isabel, por traer esta hermosura con una historia inoportuna a la atención del mundo. ¡Vaya con la virgen!
I once had the pleasure of meeting Maria briefly when I was working in the West End. It's awkward to tell a daughter it's their mother you admire, but as Maria says here what sets Marlene apart is her willingness to use her fame to stand against evil, so I couldn't not!
Mrs. Riva's view of her mother softened over the years after Marlene Dietrich's death. It's unfortunate that Riva did not wait a few years until she wrote the bio of her mother.
Pius Twelvetrees I too like many also had an extreme Narcissistic mother. Five years ago she died and now I am able to recall her best features and enjoy some distance from the torture and demeaning onslaught of these kinds of mothers. Both aspects are true and one doesn't negate the other. It takes a lot of time and effort to breathe and live after their oppressive influence.
@@laurapavone3513 Are you referring to Dietrich or her daughter? FYI, if you read Mrs. Riva's biography of her mother and then watch this video, you'll be aware of a rather astounding change of heart.
All records indicate that Marlene was a kind and vey generous woman. She was incredibly brave to criticize Hitler and her homeland Germany during the war, to the extent of suffering quite a lot of hardships o entertain the Allied forces. A wonderful and gifted actress an singer, and a legendary beauty. You did not live her life and those who criticize her morals, should mind their own business. As for Guadalupe Villascoaza, well, how can I put this tactfully,,,, "SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU JERK!"
Though I miss all of them, I miss Dietrich the most. I've just finished watching her in a Western with co-star Arthur Kennedy (his best work, I might add). There's no part of her you like the most. No, you accept the total package, the register of her voice, the swagger (better than John Wayne's), the persona. In other words, the works! I possess a limited collection of the songs most associated with her and listen as often as possible. She's just one I'll never forget, ever. I might add this digress, and it's about Eartha Kitt. If I don't miss my guess Dietrich was Kitt's influence, the unusual repertory of songs, the deep register, plus tremolo, the unconventional public behavior, even Kitt's adopted "Europeaness." Both Dietrich and Kitt share in common non hit parade songs, leaning more to songs you can listen to over and again, just not mainstream. I'm sure Dietrich daughter has made sure that all her mother's effects and papers are turned over to the proper museums there in Germany for the yet unborn to admire.
Maria is straight and raised a good family. How did she turn out so good having a mother like that. I wonder Why her mother spent her last years in Paris so far away from her beloved daughter and grandchildren? Who does that? Maria had her hands full with her.
Guadalupe Villascoaza While I'm no fan of the Kennedys, and it is a great irony that Maria Riva goes from speaking (quite rightly) of Neville Chamberlain's pacifist "fairytale" to expressing admiration for the biggest fairytale in American political history (the Kennedys), please, let's give Marlene her due. She was an immense patriot. She put her life on the line. She was at the Battle of the Bulge. Had the Germans broken through, she'd likely have been captured, and certainly executed. She was an incredibly brave woman. As for her loose personal life -- it was just that, personal. Quite unlike her purely exhibitionist imitators, e.g. Madonna. With respect to her public life she exuded class with, yes, often a strong element of the erotic. But it was the erotic mostly in the proper sense of erotic, that's to say with elegance pointing toward the beautiful.
Kennedy fairytale???? Whatever they were; contrast them with the treacherous, self seeking Bushes; Nixon; and the zenith of parasitism, Trump! Sadly for the US, you shoot dead the visionaries, (Robert and John) however flawed as humans.....and exalt the self profiteering traitors like the Bushes and the laughing stock Trump. About Marlene, I agree, brave and principled. Yet after the war? Dumped by the US who used her as a propaganda tool and left her unable to get work after ‘45. History will judge these actions as betrayal and self defeating, long after our time!
so true about the refugee situation today! " America, the freedom of this country, is never more apparent, or more precious than when you flee and need her to house you!"
And yet, at the end of WW2 after all of Marlene’s dedication and commitment, the US dispensed with her; she found it hard to get a role or work, and spent her time in Europe doing one woman shows etc. Much loved and admired. Shame on the post war US for their betrayal of her selfless dedication to anti totalitarianism
What?????? Class and intelligence? Envy and hatred more like towards a mother, she can never match..Marlene would have been better off without this daughter
That's the question : Why has such a self confident and ambitious woman like Marlene Dietrich got a daughter ? Ms. Dietrich looked repellent and cool in my eyes...a difficult personality. The leopard can't change its spots...
Like her mother she is a great person. I always was blown away by her mother although there are three generations between us. A German friend says she's not remembered well there because she wore an American uniform but that uniform liberated her nation! I regret that when I was in Berlin I did not visit her grave and do the Jewish custom of leaving a stone as I did at Oscar Schindler's grave in Jerusalem.
Maria Riva impresses me more than her mother. She is a great speaker and so compelling. My mother was born in Hamburg-Altona in 1921. She was brought to the U.S. in 1927 at age 6. Her father and mother lived through WW l and my Opa was in the army of the German Empire. They helped raise me on Long Island and sometimes my Opa would say to me "All Quiet on the Western Front". It was a privilege and luck to have lived so often with two WW l North Germans as a second set of parents. Oma was a character too, very loving to her two grandsons but my mother too had a problem with her mother. What is that all about? But she was a great cook! OMG! I had two grandparents from Palermo, Sicily also, but rarely saw them where they lived in Flushing, New York.
My Father Eddie (Edwin) Garson was a ventriloquist who toured with Marlene for 6 years in Australia. Does anyone have info or video of him doing his act to warm the crowd for her? Eddie has passed away so anything would be appreciated!!
She'll be 100 in Dec. 2024. Hope she makes it. Her mother was also long-lived. Dietrich lived to past age 90 which was remarkable considering she smoked like a chimney for most of her life.
Maria riva is astonisching,her perfekt speech artikulation ,her way of thinking ,formulierung, A good dozent about a legend.oh what a deal.. Akon❤❤😂😂😂❤
Like her protector, Erich Remarque, she can tell a story, and note the martini. Remarque preferred wine, but gin might actually make a better raconteur.
Marlene really was what we would consider a narrisict mother in the 21st century. We should love Maria because of Maria. She is eloquent and lived a life no child should have.
@MarieFirst could you imagine going on vacation and your mother says nay I'm tired of sending letters let me get you a phone. Very amusing in our lifetime but my god Maria must have been smothered
Another good example when daughters are jealous of their mothers beauty and success, not having much of either themselves. All her life Riva profited and so did her kids and tingling around slandering your mother is just downright low and disgusting!
Maria had success. She had a job she loved, husband and kids. And she cared about her mother a lot. And they had a very difficult relationships, a lot of people feel the same with their parents. It's life and it's much harder then it seems to be.
Oh get real what success ??????? Her only role was Marlene Dietrich's daughter One which she and her family has lived on all their lives non entities without Marlene nothing !!! and then to dish up the dirt for profit shame
maybe if she is still a live does she still think that " of those United States" Marlene always thought acted and lived her life as a European, never as an a American and when she came back to Germany they called her Traitor, not because what she said about Hitler because she did not care for them the German people after the war. WIE EINST DIE LILLIE MARLENE, you sang that song all the time, but you must have forgotten what the words mean, I think her daughter was very jealous of her
No movie, but numerous books. Apart from the various biographies, Maria Rivia, the lady speaking here, wrote a book about her mother. Marlene herself wrote a volume of memoirs, but I don't know if it's been published in English.
Sounds contrary to what I have been told, the French, as far as I know, believed in the Maginot Line, my grandmother was shocked when France feel, that defeatism is highly unlikely. Smashing priceless wine before a single shot was fired NO WAY, JOSE. Hindsight is always 20/20. Not lies but close, a woman who wants attention. Is what she tell in her book about her mother in need of using "grano salis" a bit of caution? Cheers
She was already a German when she left Berlin and then Paris and a German in Paris and then to USA so she was German arriving in USA via Paris. . !A German American,
Maria riva,war ja auchvdie tochter von m.d.sie sprach ähnlich,due schauspielerinnen deren zeit erfassten exakt die thematik von mutter und tochter beide intelligent,tochter rechnet mit der mutter ab. Akon😂😂😂😂❤
The funny thing is: Life standards nowadays are much better in some parts of Europe than in the USA but that's surely not what this american audience wanted to hear. If she really thinks America is a paradise, saving her from hell, she should make a trip to Germany these days...
LOL go to Germany. Never.The country that wanted to kill my family and who robbed us legally 3 times; in 1938, 1948 and after Reunification in 1992. No way Schatzele.
