Kasey Rogers
Acting • Born 1925-12-15 – Died 2006-07-06
Biography
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 U.S. 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 best-known film role, Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, playing Miriam, the scheming, adulterous wife of Guy Haines (Farley Granger). In the mid-1950s, Rogers began working on television. She guest-starred 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 "Serena's 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.
Filmography
65 credits
The Mating Season
Movie • 1951
Bridesmaid / Party Guest (uncredited)
Girls' School
Movie • 1950
Strangers on a Train
Movie • 1951
Miriam Haines
The File on Thelma Jordon
Movie • 1949
Dolly - Cleve's Secretary
Paid in Full
Movie • 1950
Tina, Bridesmaid
The French Line
Movie • 1954
Katherine 'Katy' Hodges
No Man of Her Own
Movie • 1950
Friend of family (uncredited)
The Gunfight at Dodge City
Movie • 1959
Molly Day
About Mrs. Leslie
Movie • 1954
Felice
Riding High
Movie • 1950
Spectator (uncredited)
Special Agent
Movie • 1949
Lucille Peters (as Laura Elliot)
Two Lost Worlds
Movie • 1951
Elaine Jeffries
The McConnell Story
Movie • 1955
Claire
Denver and Rio Grande
Movie • 1952
Linda Nelson
Lost Flight
Movie • 1970
Mrs. Peterson
Samson and Delilah
Movie • 1949
Spectator
The Naked Flame
Movie • 1964
Elena
Jamaica Run
Movie • 1953
Janice Clayton (as Laura Elliot)
Silver City
Movie • 1951
Josephine
Swiss Family Robinson: Lost in the Jungle
Movie • 1958
A Place in the Sun
Movie • 1951
Miss Harper (uncredited)
Something to Live For
Movie • 1952
Stage Cast Member (uncredited)
Union Station
Movie • 1950
Jenny - Clerk (uncredited)
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Maverick
TV • 1957
Trackdown
TV • 1957
The Lucy Show
TV • 1962
Miss Cavanaugh
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Loretta Harper
Bewitched
TV • 1964
Louise Tate
Hawaiian Eye
TV • 1959
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Jane Foley
Thriller
TV • 1960
Anthea Jason
Yancy Derringer
TV • 1958
Blackeyed Sue
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV • 1955
The Invisible Man
TV • 1975
The Thin Man
TV • 1957
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
TV • 1957
Janet Marquis
Peyton Place
TV • 1964
Julie Anderson
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV • 1956
The Restless Gun
TV • 1957
Jenny May McElroy
Lock-Up
TV • 1959
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Francie Keene
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Myra Crain
Bat Masterson
TV • 1958
Kitty Meadows
The Whistler
TV • 1954
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
TV • 1955
Goodyear Theatre
TV • 1957
Wilma Trask
City Detective
TV • 1953
State Trooper
TV • 1956
Frontier
TV • 1955
Panic!
TV • 1957
Tallahassee 7000
TV • 1961
Studio 57
TV • 1954
Maverick
TV • 1957
Dolly
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Mrs. Jones
The Lucy Show
TV • 1962
Miss Carroll
Stage 7
TV
Martha Sturges
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Ruby Todd
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Kate
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Lois Langley
Bat Masterson
TV • 1958
Dixie Mayhew
Bat Masterson
TV • 1958
Francie Wallace
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Bunny Cameron