Mayo Methot

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Mayo Jane Methot{{cite web|work=California County Marriages, 1850–1952|title=Marriage License #11653: Humphrey Bogart and Mayo Jane Methot|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8VW-H2N|publisher=State of California Vital Records and Statistics|via=FamilySearch}} {{registration required}}. {{url|https://archive.today/20190722113057/https://i.ibb.co/tDbpNTQ/download.png|Archive scan}} of certificate. was born March 3, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois,{{efn|Many sources erroneously refer to Methot's birthplace as Portland,{{cite web|work=University of Oregon|url=https://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/photo/fbogart|title=Mayo Methot Bogart Biography|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190510030759/https://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/photo/fbogart|archive-date=May 10, 2019|access-date=May 10, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31417221/the_daily_times/|work=The Daily Times|title=Humphrey Bogart's Ex-Wife Claimed|location=New Philadelphia, Ohio|page=9|date=June 11, 1951|via=Newspapers.com}}{{sfn|Fisher|Londré|2017|p=452}} but her July 1951 obituary in The Oregonian contradicts this, stating that she was in fact born in Chicago;{{cite news|work=The Oregonian|page=7|location=Portland, Oregon|title=Mayo Methot Bogart Dies In Portland After Illness}} this coincides with 1920 United States Census reports from Portland, which list the then-16-year-old Mayo's birthplace as Illinois, and her employment as "stock company theater."{{cite census|year=1920|location=Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon|title= Mayo J. Methot in household of John D. Methot|line=11|enumdist=34|filmnum =1821499|roll=1499|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190722123605/https://i.imgur.com/jaIimOM.jpg|archive-date=July 22, 2019|url=https://i.imgur.com/jaIimOM.jpg}} A clipping of the original July 1951 obituary that displays Chicago as her birthplace is visible in a {{url|https://web.archive.org/web/20190308081854/https://nwexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/01January2012.pdf|2012 article}} published by The NW Examiner (see page 15 of issue).}} the only child of Beryl Evelyn (née Wood) and John Dillon "Jack" Methot, a ship captain.{{sfn|Wagner|2020|p=108}} She was a direct descendant of Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States.{{Sfn|Wagner|2020|p=107}} Shortly after her birth, the family relocated to Portland, Oregon, where Methot was raised. She showed a proclivity for literature and acting as a young child, memorizing passages from Romeo and Juliet. She began performing on stage professionally at the age of five, appearing as Josef in a Portland production of Sapho, opposite Florence Roberts.

In 1912, Methot starred as David, a young boy, in a production of The Awakening of Helena Richie, at the Grand Opera House in Salem, Oregon. In an article detailing the play, it was noted: "Her grasp of what is required of her during rehearsals of plays is held to be most unusual, while those who have seen her as David in The Awakening of Helena Richie, are warm in their praise of her dramatic ability." In press promoting the production, the then-eight-year-old Methot stated that she was inspired by French actress Sarah Bernhardt.{{cite news|work=The Capital Journal|location=Salem, Oregon|title=Descendent Of Long Line Of Play Folk|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34113134/the_capital_journal/|page=3|via=Newspapers.com|date=September 18, 1912}} Around this time, she told reporter Fay King of The Spectator: "I'm going to be a fine actress, if I can."{{sfn|Schilling|1961|p=364}}

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Methot was subsequently chosen to travel with selected Portland delegates to Washington, D.C. where she presented President Woodrow Wilson with a bouquet of flowers.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15047248/mayo_methot_miss_portland_roseeast/|work=The Oregon Daily Journal|location=Portland, Oregon|title=East Knows Rose City Has A Place Upon The Big Map|via=Newspapers.com|page=8|date=June 29, 1913}} Methot began performing with the Portland-based Baker Stock Company at age nine, and her frequent appearances in local theater productions earned Methot the nickname "The Portland Rosebud."{{cite news|title=Mayo Methot, "Rosebud Of North," Captures High Officials' Hearts|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19140325&id=wRwbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LEkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3620,6515421|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press|location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|page=6|date=March 25, 1914}} In 1914, she made her film debut alongside several Baker Stock Company players in a serial short titled Forgotten Songs, produced by the Portland-based American Lifeograph Studios.{{sfn|Wagner|2020|p=109}} In January 1916, she starred as the lead in a Baker Stock Company production of The Littlest Rebel.{{sfn|Duchovnay|1999|p=15}}

After Methot graduated from Miss Catlin's School{{cite news|work=The Oregon Daily Journal|location=Portland, Oregon|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34113247/the_oregon_daily_journal/|title=Verna Felton to Play Leads at Baker|date=August 28, 1919|page=12|via=Newspapers.com}} in 1919, she pursued a full-time career with the Baker Stock Company, appearing in an August 1919 production of Come Out of the Kitchen opposite Verna Felton. This was followed by lead roles in the company's Dawn o' the Mountains (staged in May 1920), in which she portrayed a teenage boy;{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34113491/the_oregon_daily_journal/|date=May 11, 1920|page=13|via=Newspapers.com|work=The Oregon Daily Journal|location=Portland, Oregon|title=Love Theme Is Strong at Baker|author=A. S. J.}} as a bride's sister seeking a lover in Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (October 1920);{{cite news|date=October 19, 1920|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34113529/the_oregon_daily_journal/|work=The Oregon Daily Journal|title=Baker Players Do Well in Light Farce|author=A. S. J.|page=14|via=Newspapers.com}} and in the comedy That Girl Patsy, in May 1921.

While appearing in locally produced serial short films for filmmaker Robert C. Bruce (among them the 1922-released And Women Must Weep),{{cite news|work=Missoulian|location=Missoula, Montana|title=Drama Featured In These Films|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34114630/the_missoulian/|page=12|date=March 12, 1922|via=Newspapers.com}} Methot met cameraman Jack Lamond, a war veteran, and the two began a whirlwind romance in the summer of 1921.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34114719/the_oregon_daily_journal/|work=The Oregon Daily Journal|title=Mayo Methot's Wedding a Surprise|date=September 29, 1921|page=12|location=Portland, Oregon|via=Newspapers.com}} On September 21 of that year, they married at Saint Luke's Episcopal Church in Vancouver, Washington.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34112800//|work=Times-Union|location=Brooklyn, New York City|title=Actress Wins Divorce|page=4|date=December 30, 1927|via=Newspapers.com}} Methot continued to perform in local productions with the Baker Stock Company, including Linger Longer Letty in November 1921,{{cite news|work=The Oregon Daily Journal|title=Baker Players Shine in Old Comedy|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34113287/the_oregon_daily_journal/|author=C. T. H.|date=November 14, 1921|page=10|via=Newspapers.com}} and in a revival of Parlor, Bedroom and Bath in March 1922.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34113391/the_oregon_daily_journal/|work=The Oregon Daily Journal|location=Portland, Oregon|title=Jane Gilroy Is Hailed as Real Comedienne|date=March 20, 1922|page=8|via=Newspapers.com|author=C. T. H.}} In November 1922,{{cite news|date=November 26, 1922|pages=1, 4|title=Choice Bits of Rialto News; Record Price Paid For Film|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34113414/the_oregon_daily_journal/|location=Portland, Oregon|work=The Oregon Daily Journal|via=Newspapers.com}} Methot and Lamond relocated to New York City, where Lamond was employed at Cosmopolitan Productions.

Shortly after her arrival in New York, Methot began appearing on Broadway, her first production being director William Brady's The Mad Honeymoon in the summer of 1923.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34112507/the_standard_union/|work=The Standard Union|location=Brooklyn, New York City|title=Mayo Methot's Success|page=15|date=February 17, 1924|via=Newspapers.com}} Though the play received unfavorable reviews from critics, Mayo was the lone member of the cast to not receive criticism for her performance.

Based on her performance in The Mad Honeymoon, Methot was cast as the female lead of Leola Lane in George M. Cohan's production of The Song and Dance Man, which opened on New Year's Eve 1923. In 1924, she appeared as The Bride in a Philadelphia production of Owen Davis's The Haunted House. The following year, she returned to Broadway as Phyllis Halladay in Alias the Deacon, opposite Berton Churchill.{{cite news|work=New York Daily News|location=New York City|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34112779/daily_news/|title=A Little Love, A Little Kiss, $200 Saved|page=44|via=Newspapers.com}} This was followed by a 1927 production of The Medicine Man, staged by Sam H. Harris at the New Cort Theatre in Queens, New York City. On December 30, 1927, Methot and Lamond divorced, after she asserted that he had deserted her in 1925.

Methot's performance as Florence Wendell in a winter 1929 Broadway production of All the King's Men garnered her praise from Donald Mulhern of the Brooklyn Standard Union, who wrote that she "handles her emotional scenes with both art and warmth and makes the woman very real."{{cite news|work=Brooklyn Standard Union|location=Brooklyn, New York City|last=Mulhern|first=Donald|title=The New Play|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34113587/the_standard_union/|date=February 5, 1929|page=15|via=Newspapers.com}} She subsequently originated a role in the Vincent Youmans/Billy Rose musical Great Day (1929), introducing the standard "More Than You Know" and several others.{{sfn|Paymer|Post|1999|p=159}} Her subsequent performance in Half Gods (also 1929) at the Plymouth Theatre earned critical praise, with Alvin Kayton of The Brooklyn Citizen writing: "As Hope Ferrier, Mayo Methot, recently in Youmans' Great Day, was extraordinarily capable, expressing her part with an emotion and understanding which made Hope seem almost lifelike. We doubt if the role could have been bettered."{{cite news|work=The Brooklyn Citizen|location=Brooklyn, New York City|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34113570/the_brooklyn_citizen/|title=The Stage|date=December 23, 1929|page=16|via=Newspapers.com}}

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Methot moved to Hollywood in 1930, hoping to transition from stage to a career in film. She had her first major speaking role in United Artists's gangster film Corsair (1931). On November 28, 1931,{{cite news|work=Oakland Tribune|location=Oakland, California|title=Weds Again|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34112839/oakland_tribune/|via=Newspapers.com|date=November 29, 1931|page=1}} Methot married Percy T. Morgan,{{cite web |title=Life of Percy Tredegar Morgan |url=https://www.losaltoshillshistory.org/Resources/Stonebrook-Ct-manor/Life-Percy-Morgan.html |website=Los Altos Hills Historical Society |access-date=20 March 2022}}{{cite web |title=Price Vs. Patience |url=https://www.thesteepletimes.com/opulence-splendour/price-vs-patience/ |website=The Steeple Times |access-date=20 March 2022 |date=23 September 2013 |quote=He died instantly and though his widow remained there until the late 1920s, she eventually sold up and relocated to Southern California where her sons opened Hollywood’s Cock ‘n Bull “British style pub” and created the now famous Moscow Mule cocktail.}}{{cite book |title=Princeton Alumni Weekly |date=1954 |publisher=Princeton University Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sRFbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA25-PA19 |language=en |quote=... lives near Percy Morgan's Cock ' N ' Bull Restaurant but hasn't seen Percy since the day of the Yale game last fall ...}}{{cite web |title=Bogart Hired by Warner Brothers, Moves from New York to West Hollywood |url=http://www.westhollywoodhistory.org/bogart-hired-by-warner-brothers-moves-from-new-york-to-west-hollywood/ |website=West Hollywood History Center |date=December 5, 2020 |access-date=20 March 2022}}{{sfn|Duchovnay|1999|p=15}} an oil tycoon and the co-owner with John "Jack" Morgan, of the Cock n' Bull{{cite book |last1=Bare |first1=Richard L. |author1-link=Richard L. Bare |title=Confessions of a Hollywood Director |date=2001 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-4032-4 |page=23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TcFBvmSRbOYC&pg=PA23 |language=en}} restaurant on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, birthplace of the Moscow Mule.{{cite news|last=Parsons|first=Louella O.|title=Hepburn's Screen Career Unaffected By Frankness|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19470812&id=LFJPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6k4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6026,5629010|newspaper=St. Petersburg Times|location=St. Petersburg, Florida|page=8|date=August 12, 1947}}{{cite news |title=Cock'n Bull Story Has a Sad Ending : Famous Sunset Strip Restaurant to Close Its Doors After 50 Years |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-21-me-2302-story.html |access-date=20 March 2022 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=21 August 1987}}{{cite web |title=HISTORY |url=https://cocknbull.us/history/ |website=Cock'n Bull Premium Sodas |access-date=20 March 2022 |quote=The Ginger Beer Choice for the Moscow Mule!Cock'n Bull Premium Sodas}}{{cite web |title=The Moscow Mule: A Los Angeles Original |url=https://journalhotels.com/thejournalist/5229/the-moscow-mule-a-los-angeles-original/ |website=Journal Hotels |access-date=20 March 2022 |date=27 November 2017}}{{cite web |last1=Martino |first1=Alison |title=The Cock 'n Bull on Sunset Strip |url=https://martinostimemachine.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-cock-n-bull-on-sunset-strip.html |website=Vintage Los Angeles |access-date=20 March 2022}}

In 1932, after signing a contract with Warner Bros., Methot starred as the female lead in The Night Club Lady, a murder mystery co-starring Adolphe Menjou.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34112868/newsjournal/|work=News-Journal|location=Mansfield, Ohio|title=Menjou, New Leading Lady|page=8|date=November 1, 1932|via=Newspapers.com}} What followed was a long line of roles as unsympathetic second leads and tough-talking "dames" in many of Warner's contemporary crime melodramas, such as The Mind Reader and William Wyler's Counsellor at Law (both 1933), as well as Jimmy the Gent (1934) opposite Jimmy Cagney and Bette Davis. In 1934, she had roles in three First National Pictures features: first as a nurse in the drama Registered Nurse, followed by supporting parts in Side Streets and Mills of the Gods.

Methot followed this with minor parts in the Perry Mason mystery film The Case of the Curious Bride, and as a gangster's moll in the crime film Dr. Socrates (both released in 1935). She was subsequently cast in the crime drama Marked Woman (1937), again starring opposite Davis and Humphrey Bogart.{{sfn|Roman|2015|p=164}} Methot divorced her husband, Percy Morgan, in February 1937, claiming that he would not allow her to accept an acting role in New York City.{{cite news|title=Marriage Vs. Career; Latter Wins Actress|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19370206&id=I-UdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JEwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5144,4150524|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press|page=8|date=February 6, 1937|location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania}}

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Methot became romantically involved with Humphrey Bogart after co-starring with him in Marked Woman.{{sfn|Sickels|2013|p=69}} The couple were married on August 28, 1938, in Beverly Hills.{{cite news|title=Humphrey Bogart Free to Re-Wed|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19450511&id=CQpQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FlUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2880,1140620|newspaper=The Evening Independent|page=8|date=May 11, 1945|location=St. Petersburg, Florida}} Bogart had been married to actresses Helen Menken and Mary Philips before marrying Methot, and blamed his previous divorces on his wives' careers and their long separations. Two years after Methot and Bogart were married, Methot gave up acting.{{cite news|title=Fighting Bogarts Finally Separate|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19441020&id=pJ5aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zE4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3526,510767|newspaper=St. Petersburg Times|location=St. Petersburg, Florida|page=16|date=October 20, 1944}} The two became a high-profile Hollywood couple, but it was not a smooth marriage. Both drank heavily, and Methot gained a reputation for her violent excesses when under the influence.{{sfn|Thomas|1990|p=110}} They became known in the press as "The Battling Bogarts",{{sfn|Roman|2015|p=162}} with Methot known, due to her combativeness, as "Sluggy".{{sfn|Thomas|1990|p=110}} Bogart later named his motor yacht Sluggy in her honor. After Methot attempted suicide in 1943, Bogart urged her to visit a psychiatrist, and upon doing so, she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.{{sfn|Frank|1982|p=34}}{{sfn|Thorburn|2000|p=134}}

During World War II, the Bogarts traveled Europe entertaining the troops. At one point in their travels during the war, the Bogarts met with director John Huston in Italy. During a night of heavy drinking, Methot insisted that everyone listen to her perform a song. Though they tried to persuade her to desist, she sang anyway. The performance was so bad and embarrassing that Huston and Bogart remembered it several years later and based a scene in Key Largo (1948) on the incident, having the alcoholic girlfriend (played by Claire Trevor) of the mobster (played by Edward G. Robinson) struggle through "Moanin' Low" off key in hopes of winning a drink in exchange for her singing. Trevor won an Oscar for her performance in the film.

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Numerous battles took place at the Hollywood residence of the famous couple, nicknamed Sluggy Hollow,{{cite book|last=Harmetz|first=Aljean|title=The Making of Casablanca|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YSJcTLPP9QcC|publisher=Hyperion|isbn=0-7868-8814-8|page=313|year=2002}} including one in which Methot stabbed Bogart in the shoulder, and another in which the two hit one another in the head with whiskey bottles.{{sfn|Thomas|1990|p=110}} Actress Gloria Stuart—a friend of Bogart and Methot—recalled, in her later years, attending a dinner party at which Methot drunkenly brandished a pistol and threatened to shoot Bogart.{{sfn|Stuart|Thompson|1999|pages=78–81}} Stuart also recalled seeing Methot with bruises on her face on several occasions, and witnessing physical fights between the couple, including one in which Bogart tore Methot's dress off of her.{{sfn|Stuart|Thompson|1999|p=79}} The couple separated and reconciled several times over the course of their marriage.{{cite news|title=Humphrey Bogart Leaves Home Again|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19441204&id=CKYLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=F1UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6485,95128|newspaper=The Evening Independent|page=11|date=December 5, 1944|location=St. Petersburg, Florida}}

While filming To Have and Have Not in 1943, Bogart fell in love with his 19-year old co-star Lauren Bacall and the couple began an affair.{{sfn|Roman|2015|p=164}} Methot caught wind of it and visited the set often.{{sfn|Duchovnay|1999|p=24}} Bogart attempted to save the marriage but Methot's alcoholism intensified, as did their fighting.{{sfn|Sickels|2013|p=71}} Bogart announced that he had moved out of the couple's home on October 19, 1944. On October 30, Bogart announced that he had reconciled with Methot and that he was "going home. [...] In other words, we'll return to our normal battles."{{cite news|title=Bogart and Wife Make Up|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1977&dat=19441030&id=fSkiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MaQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3884,2676030|newspaper=San Jose News|location=San Jose, California|page=5|date=October 30, 1944}} The reconciliation proved short-lived; Methot announced that Bogart had moved out of their home yet again on December 3, 1944.{{cite news|title=Bogarts Again Having Parted|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19441204&id=JqVhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f38DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6953,3563895|newspaper=Deseret News|location=Salt Lake City, Utah|page=5|date=December 4, 1944}}

Methot filed for divorce on May 10, 1945, in a Las Vegas court,{{sfn|Roman|2015|p=164}} which was granted one hour after she filed for the decree.{{cite news|title=Bogart Divorced; Will Marry 'Baby'|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1977&dat=19450509&id=i0siAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GqQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5095,3393067|newspaper=San Jose News|page=1|date=May 10, 1945|location=San Jose, California}} Bogart married Lauren Bacall on May 21, 1945.{{sfn|Sickels|2013|p=71}} After the divorce, Methot retreated from the public eye for several months, and spent a period at the Malabar Farm State Park (the location of Bogart and Bacall's wedding).{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34112458/the_gazette/|work=The Gazette|location=Cedar Rapids, Iowa|title=Bacall-Bogart Wedding Simple|via=Newspapers.com|date=May 22, 1945|page=7}}

In August 1945, Methot attempted to resume a stage career in New York.{{cite news|work=New York Daily News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34112417/daily_news/|title=Mayo Hunts Stage Role, Wishes Bliss for Bogey|date=August 25, 1945|last=McCarthy|first=Julia|page=212|via=Newspapers.com}} However, she was unsuccessful, and became locked into a pattern of alcoholism and depression. In the late 1940s, she moved back to Oregon where her mother helped take care of her.

Methot died on June 9, 1951, at Holladay Park Hospital in Portland.{{cite news|title=Ex-Mrs. Bogart Dies|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19510609&id=xXIxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RRAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7445,191390|newspaper=The Milwaukee Sentinel|location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin|page=A-6|date=June 10, 1951|access-date=March 15, 2014}} Although it was reported in the press at the time that Methot died of complications from an unspecified surgery,{{cite news|work=New York Daily News|location=New York City, New York|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34113850/daily_news/|title=Obituary: Mayo Methot|date=June 10, 1951|page=304|via=Newspapers.com}} her actual cause of death was attributed to acute alcoholism.{{sfn|Donnelley|2003|p=110}} Methot left her estate, totaling $50,000 {{USDCY|50000|1951}} to her mother Evelyn.{{cite news|work=Press & Sun-Bulletin|location=Binghamton, New York|title=Bogart Ex Leaves Estate|date=August 2, 1951|page=18|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34112032/press_and_sunbulletin/|via=Newspapers.com}} Additionally, she bestowed her personal library of classic books to the Catlin Gabel School, her alma mater, as well a scholarship fund for the institution.{{cite news|work=The NW Examiner|last=Wells|first=Carol|date=January 2012|pages=1, 15|title=Troubled film stars got their start at 23rd avenue school|url=https://nwexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/01January2012.pdf|location=Portland, Oregon|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308081854/https://nwexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/01January2012.pdf|archive-date=March 8, 2019}}

Methot's remains are interred at the Portland Memorial Mausoleum in the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, alongside her parents.{{sfn|Barnes|2004|p=44}} Bogart continued to send flowers to Methot's crypt until his death in 1957.{{cite web|work=Portland Monthly|title=Long Gone Blonde|url=https://www.pdxmonthly.com/articles/2011/10/14/mayo-metho-november-2011|date=October 14, 2011|last=Libby|first=Brian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910154601/https://www.pdxmonthly.com/articles/2011/10/14/mayo-metho-november-2011|archive-date=September 10, 2015}}

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{{Commons category|Mayo Methot}}

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• [https://scua.uoregon.edu/repositories/2/resources/1751 Mayo Methot Bogart memorabilia at the University of Oregon]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110611123658/http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2Fsayrepublic&CISOPTR=3597&CISOBOX=1&REC=14 still of Methot as a child actress]
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