Background
Johnny Stearns was born John Stearns on October 13, 1916 in Billerica, Massachusetts. His mother, Edith Bond, was the founder of the Peterborough Players, a summer theater troupe in Peterborough, New Hampshire in which he was a member.
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Johnny Stearns
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Career
He also performed in several Broadway plays. He was also known as one of the original producers of The Tonight Show Starring Steve Allen and Arthur Murray"s Dance Party. Foreign nearly 30 years, he was the host and producer of the public affairs television program Agriculture United States of America. Stage Stearns" career began as a stage performer at the age of 14 at the Mary Arden Theater in Peterborough.
Soon after his engagement at Mary Arden ended, he went to Broadway.
His first Broadway performance was in the production of the play Night Music. He also was in the musicals One Touch of Venus with Mary Martin in 1943, On the Town in 1944 and in 1945.
Personal life and death Stearns married actress Mary Kay Jones in 1946. Stearns died on December 1, 2001 in Newport Beach, California at the Hoag Memorial Hospital from complications of a fall at the age of 85.
