And so it goes...

bon-aventures:

We couldn’t get married for a long time. There was a miscegenation law. We would live in separate apartments. It was before the war. After the war, they repealed the law, and he said now we can get married. I said, we have waited this long, we’ll wait until it’s convenient!We couldn’t go in a restaurant together. The only restaurant we could go inside aside from Chinatown was Chasen’s. Even once in Chinatown at a very nice restaurant [we had problems]. At the end of a picture, somebody would have a big dinner party, so Jimmy gave the dinner party that night. It was after “The Rose Tattoo” and it was for Anna Magani. [The guests] were at the table. When we sat down, two men across the dance floor sitting in the booth came over and got a hold of our chairs and dumped us both on the floor. Jimmy was very short, but he remembered his high school boxing and got up and hit the man on the chin and knocked him out.
— Sanora Babb [A novelist and the wife of cinematographer James Wong Howe. The couple married in Paris in 1947, but the union wasn’t recognized in the US until 1949. They remained married until his death in 1976.]

We couldn’t get married for a long time. There was a miscegenation law. We would live in separate apartments. It was before the war. After the war, they repealed the law, and he said now we can get married. I said, we have waited this long, we’ll wait until it’s convenient!

We couldn’t go in a restaurant together. The only restaurant we could go inside aside from Chinatown was Chasen’s. Even once in Chinatown at a very nice restaurant [we had problems]. At the end of a picture, somebody would have a big dinner party, so Jimmy gave the dinner party that night. It was after “The Rose Tattoo” and it was for Anna Magani. [The guests] were at the table. When we sat down, two men across the dance floor sitting in the booth came over and got a hold of our chairs and dumped us both on the floor. Jimmy was very short, but he remembered his high school boxing and got up and hit the man on the chin and knocked him out.

— Sanora Babb [A novelist and the wife of cinematographer James Wong Howe. The couple married in Paris in 1947, but the union wasn’t recognized in the US until 1949. They remained married until his death in 1976.]

(Source: bonaventures)

foodforfuckingthought:

Strength and Honor.

(Source: 4msterdamn)

anantoinetteaffair:

A young John Wayne playing USC football, c. 1925-1926.

kitty-collins:

Noah Cross: You may think you know what you’re dealing with, but, believe me, you don’t.
Noah Cross: Why is that funny?
Jake Gittes: That’s what the District Attorney used to tell me in Chinatown.