Emanuel "Manie" Sacks (January 30, 1902 – February 9, 1958) was an American music and television executive who worked for Columbia Records, RCA Victor and NBC.
He worked closely with artists such as George Burns, Jack Benny, Dinah Shore, Harry James and others.
Sacks briefly worked for his father's company as a clothing salesman but left to go into the entertainment business.
He was 39 when World War II started which meant he was not drafted and instead stayed in New York working with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Harry James and Doris Day.
It led to James becoming an actor on romantic movies where he met his future wife, Betty Grable.
"[3] Sinatra also said of Sacks, "At my time of life I look back, and I can count on the fingers of one hand the people who were true friends.
Performers included Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Jack Webb, Betty Grable, Nat King Cole, and Perry Como.
[10][11] The performers all worked for union minimum so the excess (over $200,000) could be donated to the Emanuel Sacks Foundation.
[12] In 1959, the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia dedicated the Emanuel Sacks Hematology Department in his honor.