sentences:  She met her future husband, the Chinese-American cinematographer James Wong Howe before World War II.They traveled to Paris in 1937 to marry, but their marriage was not recognized in California, due to the state's anti-miscegenation law (which prohibited marriage between people of different races).Howe would not cohabit with Babb while they were legally unwed, due to his traditional Chinese views, so they maintained separate apartments in the same building.