Max liebman biography


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  • Max Liebman

    American theater and TV producer (1902–1981)

    Max Liebman (August 2, 1902 – July 21, 1981)[1] was a Broadway theater and TV producer-director sometimes called the "Ziegfeld of TV", who helped establish early television's comedy vocabulary with Your Show of Shows.

    He additionally helped bring improvisational comedy into the mainstream with his 1961 Broadway revue From the Second City.

    Biography

    Max Liebman was born in Vienna, Austria, and emigrated to the United States during childhood.

    He attended Boys High School in Brooklyn, New York City.

    Your show of shows

    where his extracurricular activities included the debating society and school theater, including shows with classmate Arthur Schwartz, the future Broadway composer. In 1920, Liebman entered vaudeville as a comedy sketch-writer, and in 1924[2] or 1925[1] became social director at Camp Log Cabin[2] or the Log Tavern[1] in Pennsylvania.

    In 1932[1] or 1933[2&#