1. Jack Entratter, nicknamed "Mr Entertainment", was an American business executive.
14 Facts About Jack Entratter
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Jack Entratter is best known for management positions at the Copacabana nightclub in New York City in the 1940s and early 1950s, and at the iconic Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas from the early 1950s.
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Jack Entratter is closely associated with Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack in the history of Las Vegas.
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Jack Entratter later worked as a bouncer at the Stork Club in New York City in the 1930s.
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Jack Entratter became general manager of the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas when it opened in December 1952.
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Jack Entratter made many show business friends during his time as a manager at the Copacabana, where he gained renown for his smoothness in dealing with its performers and patrons.
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Jack Entratter was able to use these connections to sign performers for the Copa Room at the Sands, a nightclub that he built especially for Sinatra.
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Jack Entratter offered entertainers an additional incentive to perform at the Sands.
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Jack Entratter's personally selected "Copa Girls" wore $12,000 worth of costumes on the hotel's opening night.
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Jack Entratter was still the manager of the Sands in 1966 when Sinatra's live album, Sinatra at the Sands, was recorded, as during the "Tea Break" Sinatra mentioned that Jack Entratter had told him that many of the hotel suites of the new hotel block being built at the time would be given names to glamorize it, including the Danny Thomas, Red Skelton, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis suites.
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Jack Entratter died in Las Vegas on March 11,1971, after suffering a brain hemorrhage.
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Jack Entratter reportedly had a "slightly menacing character with the demeanor of an ex-boxer", yet was "smooth and courtly" to those he liked.
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Jack Entratter was congregation president of Temple Beth Sholom from 1959 through 1963, and again in 1966.
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Jack Entratter was one of the founders of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas.