- Robert Lieibmann was German newspaper film and stage critic who became a successful screenwriter with such films as The Love Waltz (1930), Congress Dances (1931) and Blued Angel (1931). In the mid 1930s Liebmann was beckoned to Hollywood by actress Mady Christians to help jump start her flagging career. While living in France Robert Liebmann became one of the millions of European Jews to vanish under Nazi tyranny during the Second World War.- IMDb Mini Biography By: John F. Barlow
- SpouseNené Flack.(1918 - ?)
- He widened his literary repertoire and he wrote lines for revues and librettos. From 1919 he also started his career as a screenwriter.
- When Germany invaded France Robert Liebmann was arrested and he came via Drancy to the concentration camp Auschwitz where he perished shortly after.
- Despite his merit for the German film it did not protect him from the new political power - the National Socialism.
- As a Jew his days in Germany were numbered. He went via France to the USA and he only wrote few more screenplays in the emigration like "Early to Bed" (1933) and "The Only Girl" (1934). Finally he returned to France where he continued his film career.
- The screenwriter Robert Liebmann finished his law studies before he began to work as a critic for film and theater for several publications.
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