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Marlene Dietrich’s daughter Maria Riva will turn 100 this December

I had no idea she was still alive. When was the last time she made a public appearance? She wrote one of the best celebrity biographies in history.

by Anonymousreply 7December 14, 2024 2:09 PM

That bio was riveting and quite unsettling. I didn’t think I could manage the 800 or so pages, but it was so fascinating that I couldn’t stop reading.

Dietrich was a crazy melange of glamour, cunning, egotism, drive, and ultimately sadness, even though she’d never admit to the last one. The final act of Dietrich drunk and dying in a squalid Paris apartment reeking of booze and piss feels almost karmic considering all the callousness and almost sociopathic manipulations recounted in the preceding hundreds of pages, but I still felt sorry for her in the end.

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by Anonymousreply 1October 25, 2024 2:18 PM

Didn’t she try to have her daughter raped? It was something horrifying.

by Anonymousreply 2October 25, 2024 3:23 PM

R2 I didn't hear that, but Maria Riva was raped at the age of 13 by her nanny (female).

by Anonymousreply 3December 14, 2024 9:12 AM

Hers doesn't count. Mine does.

by Anonymousreply 4December 14, 2024 12:03 PM

Marlene got a lot of good dick in her time. And pussy, too.

by Anonymousreply 5December 14, 2024 12:55 PM

^ But according to her daughter, Dietrich didn’t really enjoy sex, but rather only the seduction and the power that came with it.

by Anonymousreply 6December 14, 2024 2:03 PM

Maria Riva turned 100 yesterday.

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