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Hollywood was in Fort Worth news earlier this year with the nomination of Fort Worth’s Abraham Alexander for an Academy Award for Best Song of the Year (from the 2024 movie “Sing Sing”). The Nigerian-born Alexander attended Texas Wesleyan University before launching a musical career.
Filmmakers’ interest in Fort Worth might have originated in 1920 when the fledgling Lone Star Pictures announced plans to film its first motion picture here, “a romance of the Texas oil fields.” It never happened, but in the years to come, some well-known Hollywood actors had a soft spot in their hearts for Cowtown…