She appeared in over 30 films, as well as in various Broadway productions, and attracted significant media attention for her tempestuous marriage to actor Humphrey Bogart.

[10] She began performing on stage professionally at the age of five, appearing as Josef in a Portland production of Sapho, opposite Florence Roberts.

[10] 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.

"[11] 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.

"[13] 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.

[15] After Methot graduated from Miss Catlin's School[16] 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.

[16] 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;[17] as a bride's sister seeking a lover in Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (October 1920);[18] and in the comedy That Girl Patsy, in May 1921.

[19] While appearing in locally produced serial short films for filmmaker Robert C. Bruce (among them the 1922-released And Women Must Weep),[20] Methot met cameraman Jack Lamond, a war veteran, and the two began a whirlwind romance in the summer of 1921.

[22] Methot continued to perform in local productions with the Baker Stock Company, including Linger Longer Letty in November 1921,[23] and in a revival of Parlor, Bedroom and Bath in March 1922.

[7] 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.

[7] 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,[7][26] which opened on New Year's Eve 1923.

[22] 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.

[41][42][43][44][45] 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.

Numerous battles took place at the Hollywood residence of the famous couple, nicknamed Sluggy Hollow,[56] 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.

[61] After the divorce, Methot retreated from the public eye for several months, and spent a period at the Malabar Farm State Park[65] (the location of Bogart and Bacall's wedding).

[67][68] Although it was reported in the press at the time that Methot died of complications from an unspecified surgery,[67] her actual cause of death was attributed to acute alcoholism.

[70] 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.