Born in 1901, in Canada, to Charles Bernard Froomess and Elizabeth Babin Froomess, Emanuel Froomess was one of eleven siblings, growing up in Rochester, New York. His sister, Camille Froomess, later known as Toni Mannix, would go on to become a showgirl in the Ziegfeld Follies during the 1920s and eventually migrate to Hollywood in the early 1930s. In 1951, she would become the companion and later wife of MGM executive Eddie Mannix.
Emanuel Froomess began his own film career as a writer of comedy shorts around the same time as his sister's, commencing in 1936. Using his birth name, Emanuel Froomess, he is documented on a passenger list for the S.S. George Washington, traveling from England to New York in 1939, with his occupation listed as a writer.
Throughout his career, Emanuel Froomess wrote numerous shorts, featuring the Joe Palooka boxing character, as well as a film in 1951, starring boxers Maxie Rosenbloom and Max Baer. In 1957, he was naturalized as a U.S. citizen.
