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Mayo Methot
Born	March 3, 1904(1904-03-03) Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Died	June 9, 1951 (aged 47) Multnomah, Oregon, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1920s–1940s
Spouse(s)	John M. La Mond (1921-1927) Percy T. Morgan Jr. (1930?-1936) Humphrey Bogart (1938-1945)

Mayo Methot (March 3, 1904 – June 9, 1951), also known as Mayo Methot Bogart, was an American film and theater actress.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Final years and death 2 Filmography 3 External links

[edit] Biography

Methot was born in Portland, Oregon. A petite brunette, she became a popular actress on Broadway during the 1920s where she was admired for both her acting and singing ability. While on Broadway she originated a role in the Vincent Youmans / Billy Rose musical Great Day (1929), introducing the standard "More Than You Know" and several others. She moved to Hollywood in the early 1930s and began an association with Warner Brothers Studios. She found herself most usually cast as unsympathetic second leads, and tough talking "dames" of Warner's contemporary crime melodramas such as Jimmy the Gent and Marked Woman, where she met Humphrey Bogart. They married in 1938. It was her third marriage, first having wed at age 19 to Cosmopolitan Productions cameraman Jack La Mond, whom she divorced in 1927. After the death of her father, Captain Jack Methot, on December 20, 1929, she came to Hollywood in 1930 and soon married Percy T. Morgan (the co-owner, with his brother, of the well-known Cock n' Bull restaurant on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard). They divorced shortly after she re-acquainted with Bogart in 1936.

Methot and Bogart became a couple of high-profile Hollywood celebrities, but it was not a smooth marriage. Both drank heavily, and Methot gained a reputation for her violent excesses when under the influence. They became known as "The Battling Bogarts," with Methot's nickname widely known, for her combativeness, as "Sluggy." Bogart later named his motor yacht Sluggy, in her honor. During World War II, the Bogarts traveled Europe, entertaining the troops. But the troops weren't the only ones who were entertained. Most of the time during their travels, they stayed in officers quarters. They had no trouble borrowing guns, and many times, were caught "shooting up the place" in the middle of the night. Afterwards, the army banned married couples from entertaining the troops for the remainder of the war.

At one point, in their travels during the war, they linked up with director John Huston in Italy. During a night of heavy drinking, Methot insisted that everyone listen to her perform a song. Though they told her no, she sang anyway. The performance was so bad and embarrassing, Huston and Bogart remembered it years later and based a scene in Key Largo on the incident. It was the scene in which the alcoholic girlfriend (Claire Trevor) of the mobster (played by Edward G. Robinson) sang a number off key and while intoxicated. The performance won Trevor an Oscar.

Numerous battles took place at the Hollywood residence of the famous couple including one in which Methot actually stabbed Bogart in the shoulder. The incident was kept out of the press by the publicity department of Warner Bros. Actress Gloria Stuart recalled in her later years, a dinner party at which Methot produced a pistol and threatened to shoot Bogart. At one point, when Methot was depressed, she slashed her wrists (again, played down by the press thanks to their studio). Methot's career went into a rapid decline as a result of her drinking, and her marriage to Bogart ended in 1945, when he left her to marry Lauren Bacall.

[edit] Final years and death

Methot was unable to renew her career and settled into a pattern of alcoholism and depression. Following her divorce from Bogart in May 1945 (Bogart married actress Lauren Bacall 2 weeks later), she moved back to Oregon where her mother helped take care of her. By the early 1950s, struggling to support herself and ill from years of alcoholism, she died in a motel room in Multnomah, Oregon, an outlying suburb of Portland on June 9, 1951. Her body lay undiscovered for several days. When Bogart heard the news (while shooting The African Queen) his comment was "such a waste". Mayo Methot's mother, Evelyn W. Methot survived her daughter by five and a half years, and died November 27, 1956. The Methot family are all interred together, at the Portland Memorial Mausoleum in Portland, Oregon.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1930	Taxi Talks
1931	Corsair	Sophie
1932	The Night Club Lady	Lola Carewe
	Vanity Street	Fern
	Virtue	Lil Blair
	Afraid to Talk	Marge Winters	Alternative title: Merry-Go-Round
1933	The Mind Reader	Jenny
	Lilly Turner	Mrs. Durkee	Uncredited
	Goodbye Love	Sandra Hamilton
	Counsellor at Law	Zedorah Chapman
1934	Jimmy the Gent	Gladys Farrell
	Registered Nurse	Nurse Gloria Hammond
	Harold Teen	Sally LaSalle	Alternative title: Dancing Fool
	Side Streets	Maizie Roach	Alternative title: A Woman in Her Thirties
	Mills of the Gods	Sarah
1935	The Case of the Curious Bride	Mrs. Florabelle Lawson
	We're in the Money		Scenes deleted
	Dr. Socrates	Muggsy, Red's Moll
1936	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	Mrs. Semple	Uncredited
	The Case Against Mrs. Ames	Cora
1937	Marked Woman	Estelle Porter
1938	Women in Prison	Daisy Saunders
	Numbered Woman		Alternative title: Private Nurse
	The Sisters	Blonde
1939	Should a Girl Marry?	Betty Gilbert
	Unexpected Father	Ethel Stone	Alternative title: Sandy Takes a Bow
	A Woman Is the Judge	Gertie
1940	Brother Rat and a Baby	Girl in Bus	Alternative title: Baby Be Good

[edit] External links

• Mayo Methot at the Internet Movie Database
• Biographical sketch at the University of Oregon
• Mayo Methot at Find a Grave

Persondata
NAME	Methot, Mayo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bogart, Methot Mayo
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actress
DATE OF BIRTH	March 3, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Portland, Oregon, United States
DATE OF DEATH	June 9, 1951
PLACE OF DEATH	Multnomah, Oregon, United States