After a lifetime at the top of Tinseltown, representing stars such as Sharon Stone, Richard Gere and Mel Gibson, the late legendary agent Ed Limato knew a thing or two about movies. Just before his death this year, he shared his favourite features with GQ's Creative Fashion Director Jo Levin and compiled his essential Old Hollywood watching list...
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Gloria Swanson, William Holden
Director: Billy Wilder
All About Eve (1950)**
**Bette Davis, Anne Baxter
Director: Joseph Mankiewicz
Mr Skeffington (1944)**
**Bette Davis, Claude Rains
Director: Vincent Sherman
Jezebel (1938)
Bette Davis, Henry Fonda
Director: William Wyler
Of Human Bondage (1934)**
**Bette Davis, Leslie Howard
Director: John Cromwell
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier
Director: Alexander Korda
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Director: William Wyler
To Have And Have Not (1944)
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Director: Howard Hawks
The Big Sleep (1946)
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Director: Howard Hawks
Key Largo (1948)
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G Robinson, Claire Trevor
Director: John Huston
Grand Hotel (1932)
Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery
Director: Edmund Goulding
Casablanca (1942)
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
Director: Michael Curtiz
Humoresque (1946)
Joan Crawford, John Garfield
Director: Jean Negulesco
The Women (1939)
Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Joan Crawford
Director: George Cukor
Dinner At Eight (1933)**
**John Barrymore, Marie Dressler
Director: George Cukor
From Here To Eternity (1953)
Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed
Director: Fred Zinnemann
High Noon (1952)
Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Notorious (1946)
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Vertigo (1958)
James Stewart, Kim Novak
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Meet John Doe (1941)
Gary Cooper, Edward Arnold
Director: Frank Capra
Ball Of Fire (1941)**
**Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper
Director: Howard Hanks
Double Indemnity (1944)**
**Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G Robinson
Director: Billy Wilder
Titanic (1953)**
**Barbara Stanwyck, Clifton Webb
Director: Jean Negulesco
Sorry Wrong Number (1948)
Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster
Director: Anatole Litvak
Witness For The Prosecution (1957)
Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power
Director: Billy Wilder
Night Of The Hunter (1955)
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters
Director: Charles Laughton
High Sierra (1941)
Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino
Director: Raoul Walsh
Treasure Of Sierra Madre (1948)**
**Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston
Director: John Huston
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Jack Lemon, Marilyn Monroe
Director: Billy Wilder
Meet Me In St Louis (1944)**
**Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien
Director: Vincent Mirrell.
Singin' In The Rain (1952)
Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds
Director: Stanley Donen
A Star Is Born (1954)
Judy Garland, James Mason
Director: George Cukor
The Hard Way (1943)
Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie
Director: Vincent Sherman
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Doris Day, James Stewart
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Love Me Or Leave Me (1955)
Doris Day, James Cagney
Director: Charles Vidor
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)**
**James Cagney, Joan Leslie
Director: Michael Curtiz
White Heat (1949)**
**James Cagney
Director: Raoul Walsh
The Life Of Emile Zola (1937) **
**Paul Muni
Director: William Dieterle
Gone With The Wind (1939)**
**Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh
Director: Victor Fleming
Wizard Of Oz (1939)**
**Judy Garland, Bert Lahr
Director: Victor Fleming
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Originally published in the November 2010 issue of British GQ.
