Early in his career, Manne was occasionally seen and heard in the movies, for example in the 1942 film Seven Days Leave, as the drummer in the highly popular Les Brown orchestra (soon to be known as "Les Brown and His Band of Renown").
W początkach swojej kariery Manne bywał czasem słyszany i widywany na ekranie np. w filmie z 1942 Seven Days Leave, jako perkusista bardzo popularnej orkiestry Lesa Browne’a (wkrótce znanego jako Les Brown and His Band of Renown).