Early Work As Theater Director
He toured the RKO circuit for two or three years as a dancer in vaudeville, until it collapsed. Sears went back to Boston as an apprentice with the Copley Stock Company, eventually becoming the company juvenile. In the late 1930s, Sears served as the stage manager of John Barrymore's touring company for one of the actor’s last productions, My Dear Children.
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