In films she mostly played the second lead in hard-boiled roles such as “the other woman” or a gun moll. In 1937 she met Humphrey Bogart on the set of Marked Woman and they were married the following year. She made a few more films but essentially gave up her career in 1940, except for narrating Report from the Front with Bogart in 1944. It was well-known around Hollywood that theirs was a stormy marriage fueled by alcohol which led to physical violence. Methot’s nickname was “Sluggy.”

In 1945 Bogart divorced his third wife and married Lauren Bacall 11 days later.

- Sandra Burlingame