Like many children, Shawnee native Screenwriter and Director Allex Tarr grew up hearing about her grandparents’ love story.
The story went that Tarr’s grandmother, Delores McWater, at 16, decided to ask her boyfriend, John “Johnny” Woolery, to marry her after a late movie at the Ritz Theater, in Shawnee.
“My grandparents told me this story from the time I was a lit...
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