Mayo Methot
Biography
Mayo Methot was an American actress of stage and screen who began performing professionally as a child in Portland, Oregon, where she was raised after her birth in Chicago in 1904. She acted with the Baker Stock Company from the age of nine and became a Broadway player in the 1920s, originating a role in the Vincent Youmans musical Great Day in 1929. Moving to Hollywood in 1930, she signed with Warner Bros. and specialized in unsympathetic second leads and tough-talking women in crime melodramas. Her films included Counsellor at Law (1933), Jimmy the Gent (1934) opposite Jimmy Cagney and Bette Davis, and Marked Woman (1937), in which she again appeared with Davis. She died in 1951.
47years old at death
- Born Chicago
- Died Portland
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
- Also credited as Mayo Jane Methot
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 4 years1933 to 1937
Every film, newest first
- 1937Marked WomanIMDb rating 7.1
- 1934Jimmy the GentIMDb rating 6.6
- 1933Counsellor at LawIMDb rating 7.5
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Beyond film
In the 1929 Vincent Youmans and Billy Rose musical Great Day, Methot created a part and sang "More Than You Know" along with other songs for the first time.
First role
At five years old, Methot started acting on stage professionally. She played Josef in Sapho, a Portland production, with Florence Roberts.
First role
Methot's first Broadway production was director William Brady's The Mad Honeymoon in the summer of 1923, and she was the only cast member not criticized by reviewers.
Mayo Methot movies on Netflix
Most often with
Michael Curtiz directed two of these films. Three actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Bette Davis's page
Allen Jenkins's page
Isabel Jewell's page
Michael CurtizDirector, 2 films, 1934 to 1937
All films by Michael Curtiz
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