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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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Saturday night's WWII thriller stars James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney and some fairly blatant anti-Japanese attitudes. Click through for the history behind it.
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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.
-
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.
-
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.
