Kasey Rogers

Kasey Rogers born Josie Imogene Rogers December 15 1925 July 6 2006 was an American actress memoirist and writer best known for playing the second Louise Tate in the popular US television sitcom Bewitched Rogers was born Josie Imogene Rogers She moved with her family to California at the age of two As a child her prowess at the game of baseball led her friends to nickname her Casey after the famous poem Casey at the Bat While under contract to Paramount she used the stage name Laura Elliot In 1955 she began working with a press agent in Hollywood Walter Winslow Lewis III aka Bud It was Bud who suggested that she use the nickname with her maiden name and changed the C to a K They later married and had four children Rogers began work under the names Laura Elliott and Laura Elliot for Paramount Pictures She appeared in movies such as Special Agent Samson and Delilah Silver City Paid in Full Two Lost Worlds and in perhaps her bestknown film role Alfred Hitchcocks Strangers on a Train playing Miriam the scheming adulterous wife of Guy Haines Farley Granger In the mid1950s Rogers began working on television She gueststarred on various series such as Sergeant Preston Stage 7 The Restless Gun The Lone Ranger Bat Masterson Maverick Yancy Derringer Perry Mason as Francie Keene in the Wanted Dead or Alive episode Railroaded and many other programs In 1964 she landed a starring role on Peyton Place portraying the character Julie Anderson the mother of Betty Anderson Barbara Parkins She left the series in 1966 to replace Irene Vernon in the role of Louise Tate on Bewitched In 1972 she performed as Louise Tate for the final time in the episode Serenas Youth Pill She then retired from acting appearing in only a few guest television spots and making appearances on the Bewitched edition of E True Hollywood Story