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Article: SEARCH IS ON FOR RIGHT BOY TO PLAY DENNIS THE MENACE
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- May 22, 1992
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Jay North, who played Dennis the Menace on television in the '60s. Movie producer John Hughes says North was too old for the part.
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Know a 6-year-old boy who's always making fun of girls, throwing baseballs through windows and refusing to eat his vegetables?
"I need to find one who's going to be outgoing enough to do all that in front of a camera," said movie producer John Hughes.
Hughes ("Home Alone," "Uncle Buck") began a nationwide search Thursday for a star for his upcoming movie, "Dennis the Menace."
"I don't want somebody who has learned how to act yet," Hughes said Thursday in a telephone interview. ...