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Find the "Classic Cool" films streaming online and read about the films in Classic Cool Context.
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This high-tension film noir originally hit theaters back in 1950. This week, we look at the L.A. of the film's day, in particular the beatnik culture glimpsed in the film.
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We take a closer look at "Kansas City Confidential," the 1952 film noir airing on Saturday's Classic Cool Theater.
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Watch this week's Cool Classic Theater main feature, "At War With The Army."
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Dick Tracy is back this Saturday at 9 p.m. Learn more about the film -- and L.A. when the film first hit theaters back in 1946.
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Watch this week's Cool Classic Theater main feature, "Dick Tracy, Detective."
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Get the headlines of yesteryear with this newsreel from this week's Classic Cool Theater. On this installment: The latest in automobile inventions.
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This week, Louis Jordan performs "Five Guys Named Moe."
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The classic comic book noir hero came to the big screen in 1945. But why were American's so fascinated with organized crime in the first place?
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Laurel and Hardy star in the 1939 comedy "The Flying Deuces," which airs at 9 p.m. this Saturday night as part of Classic Cool Theater.
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This week's Classic Cool Theater movie is 1948's "My Dear Secretary," starring a freshfaced upstart named Kirk Douglas. Read more about the film -- and the Los Angeles that received it back when it first hit theaters.
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This 1941 Jimmy Stewart musical also happens to be the last movie to feature him singing on screen. Click through to find out why!
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A look back into what L.A. was like back when this classic Carole Lombard screwball comedy first hit theaters.
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Our Classic Cool Theater film this week is "At War With the Army," starring the famous duo of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. Get the history behind the movie -- and the L.A. that received it -- back in 1950.
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KCET takes a look at this seminal screwball comedy, which made fun of the American income gap at the height of the Great Depression. Because who doesn't like making fun of rich people?
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This romantic comedy his theaters back in 1941. What was America like back then? What about Los Angeles? Find out with a look back.
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We take a look back at the 1960 B-movie classic, "Little Shop of Horrors," and the state of Hollywood's schlock movie industry at the time "Little Shop" hit theaters.
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This week's Classic Cool Theater film, "My Favorite Brunette," has Bob Hop parodying the detective noir genre. In this column, get some insight about why noir was so big in the 40's -- and in L.A. in particular.
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This Saturday night, Classic Cool Theater screens "Stage Door Canteen." Get the story behind this WWII hotspot as well as that of its Los Angeles counterpart.
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This 1951 Van Johnson film tells the true story of the 442nd regiment, a largely Japanese-American WWII unit that became the most-decorated in U.S. military history.
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This filmed-on-location caper about occupied Berlin stars Montgomery Clift and offers a bit of insight about American attitudes toward Communism in 1950.
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