"The Thing Called Love"

The Rialto Theatre in South Pasadena appears about nine minutes into Peter Bogdanovich's film "The Thing Called Love" (Paramount, 1993). Here the Rialto is standing in for a venue in Nashville with a line of young performers waiting to audition. 

The story about young hopefuls in the country music business features River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Sandra Bullock and Dermot Mulroney. It was mostly filmed in Nashville but many interiors were done in Los Angeles.

Samantha Mathis is one of the performers in the line that stretches out the house right exit and up the exit passageway north of the theatre.

See the Rialto Theatre pages on the Los Angeles Theatres site for a history of the building and many photos.

On IMDb: "The Thing Called Love"