Leopold Jacobson was born on June 30, 1878 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931),
Married in Hollywood (1929) and
The Chocolate Soldier (1914). He died on February 23, 1943 in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia [now Terezín, Czech Republic].