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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

Ginger Rogers commandeered the star dressing room here in 1925, and her mother made sure she kept it. The Rialto Theatre at 318 East Congress Street in downtown Tucson opened on 29 August 1920 with the William S. Hart western The Toll Gate, built by William Curlett and Son jointly with the Hotel Congress across the street as one of the city's first movie houses and its leading vaudeville stage. The original room held about 1,000 across floor, mezzanine and balcony, with a 7,500-dollar Kilgen pi...