this should be illegal

~ view in high-res if you want to die

The Powells were also among the guests at the October 1941 wedding of Rosalind Russel to Frederick Brisson — and apparently were the only guests to help the newlyweds celebrate the next morning.

Brisson recalled, “At about then o’clock… there was a knock on our door. ‘Good morning, Mr. and Mrs. Brisson,’ cried a voice from outside, whereupon Mrs. Brisson leaped out of bed and shut herself in a closet, not emerging again until she had put on her honeymoon finery. The knock on the door had been delivered by Bill Powell, who entered now with a magnum of champagne, four glasses and his wife, Diana. Bill and Diana had been at the wedding, decided they’d drunk too much to drive home, and come to the inn at Santa Maria, where they were amazed to find that the bride and groom were already installed. They’d spent the night in the room next to ours, and Bill claimed to have heard through the walls everything Rosaling and I had said to one another… She was a very proper New England girl, and we had to drink almost the entire magnum before she started to think Bill was funny.”

Newlyweds Reflect Happiness

William Powell, “Thin Man” of the films with his bride, Diana Lewis, budding actress, recently returned from their honeymoon in Nevada, offer big smiles for lensman as they attended Franco-British war relief ball in Cocoanut Grove of Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles in 1940.