Comments on: A Small Toast to Mayo Methot (1904-1951)

By: HarlowMGM

HarlowMGM — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:20:06 +0000

This is the nicest, most detailed tribute I’ve come across for Mayo Methot on the internet, thank you. Mayo has a pretty good featured part in the pre-code B GOODBYE LOVE (1933) (available on DVD) as money-grubbing ex-wife although it’s a little unsettling watching her act a comic drunk scene given her personal issues.

By: Portland/New York City, 1923 | Oregon Movies, A to Z

Portland/New York City, 1923 | Oregon Movies, A to Z — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:45:31 +0000

[...] 1923, a young Mayo Methot was appearing The Song & Dance Man on Broadway, opposite George M. [...]

By: richard monaco

richard monaco — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:56:11 +0000

I’am a bit of a movie expert.When friends ask me about a movie I answer they have not made a good movie since 1978. Only because I have an academy award book that ends in “78″ I have used the term “battling Bogarts”for a long long time. Most of the people I tell that to,haven’t got a clue as to what I mean.

By: Al Lowe

Al Lowe — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:37:14 +0000

Poor Mayo. She seems like a character from a Raymond Chandler novel.
I bought and recently watched a used VHS video, Marked Woman. I had seen it years before and it plays sometimes on TCM. The star, of course, is Bette Davis but most of the cast gets to show their acting chops. Mayo is one of several girl chums Bette has and she looks rather forlorn, unhappy with her life. I hope that was her acting and not just showing what her own life was like.
Bogart’s in this one, too. Considering that the two had a relationship going on, it is interesting to watch them share scenes with the group of actors. I don’t think the two speak to each other. They were both pros and noone would even guess that these two people were intimate companions.
You know, I don’t recall reading any comments Bogart and Bette ever made about each other. They worked together several times and must have had opinions about each other. Bogart once took a cheap shot at Joan Crawford. But Bette? I don’t think so. Does anyone know differently?

By: moirafinnie

moirafinnie — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:20:34 +0000

To those who'd like to see what may be the best example of Mayo Methot's presence on film: As part of the Carole Lombard Star of the Month celebration in October on TCM, Mayo Methot may be see on Monday, Oct 20th at 10:30PM ET in Virtue (1932) in an effective and ultimately touching part as a girl who's been around.

By: MMethot

MMethot — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:33:24 +0000

Thank you kindly for writing an article that focuses about the life of Mayo rather than simply the relationship between Humphry Bogart and Mayo Methot. I`ve heard in our family what a spitfire she was, and how many of our family members carry a similar personality, but it`s nice to finally read some kind comments about what a fantastic actress she was. What a tragedy that her life fell to the bottle. At least she left a legacy of sorts.

By: decotodd

decotodd — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:52:07 +0000

Wonderful tribute! I was captivated by her tender peformance in "Virture" during the Wellman month on TCM. Thanks for writing up this informative article.

By: Christy

Christy — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:13:25 +0000

Moira, what a stunning portrait of a lady who needed illumination.Another riveting read from the Irish spinmistress!3

By: Dewey1960

Dewey1960 — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:37:25 +0000

Moira, thanks for your brilliant and penetrating profile of the sad but obviously talented Mayo Methot. And while I can't say that I've seen an abundance of her films, the one performance of hers that really stands out for me is found in the 1936 film BLACK LEGION which starred Bogart (in one of his most powerful roles, as a frustrated factory worker who falls in with a KKK-like hate group) and Ann Sheridan. Mayo plays the "town tart" who Bogie gravitates to when his marriage to Sheridan starts to crumble in the wake of the sinister events that swallow his life. Methot nearly steals the show with a gut wrenching display of shrewery that borders on insanity. Her scenes with Bogart probably came to mirror all too uncomfortably the painful reality that would eventually typify their own real life relationship. Thanks again for a (typically) fascinating read! – Dewey

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:33:28 +0000

Thanks for this wonderful profile on an actress who is little known today except as a footnote in Bogart's life. I first saw her in a 16mm print of NIGHT CLUB LADY, a highly entertaining Pre-Code movie in which she dominates every scene she's in. She's certainly memorable in her brief scenes in MARKED WOMAN and THE MIND READER and I'll have to check her out in VIRTUE and William A. Wellman's Pre-Code LILLY TURNER which I hope TCM runs again soon.