On this day in 1949, a New York judge threw out a case against Humphrey Bogart after a model accused him of pushing her because she touched his pandas. Yes, you read that right. Bogie and a friend went to the famed El Morocco nightclub, and in order to ward off home-wreckers, they booked a table for four and brought two giant stuffed pandas. Bogart explained: “This is a free country, isn’t it? I can take my panda any place I want to. And if I wanna buy it a drink, that’s my business.” When a journalist asked Bogie if he was drunk at the time of the incident, he replied: “Isn’t everybody at 4am?” #humphreybogart #pandagate #nyc #newyork #elmorocco #onthisday #oldhollywood #legend #icon (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoXy9j5lx4p/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=186zskfo6kp0p














