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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

Gloria Swanson's first talkie opened the house in 1929; My Morning Jacket reopened it eighty-one years later. The State Theatre at 609 Congress Street in downtown Portland, Maine debuted on 8 November 1929 with The Trespasser before 2,200 invited guests - architect Herbert W. Rhodes's 2,300-seat Moorish-and-Art-Deco movie palace at the corner of Congress and High. Three decades as the city's first-run picture house gave way to a stranger second act: by 1970 the State was running adult films, a ...