The California Theatre was a Beaux-Arts cinema at 810 S. Main Street in Downtown Los Angeles.

The architect was Alex B. Rosenthal, who also designed the Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara, California.

Goldwyn Pictures bought the cinema in 1919 and hired Samuel L. "Roxy" Rothafel to manage it.

As the Historic Core district no longer was the shopping and entertainment center of the city after the 1950s, it became more and more difficult to make a profit.

After 1983 it operated as a grindhouse and afterwards showed pornographic films as a branch of the Pussycat Theaters.