- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJosie Imogene Rogers
- Nicknames
- Laura Elliott
- Laura Elliot
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Kasey Rogers was born Josie Imogene Rogers in Morehouse, Missouri, to Ina Mae (Mocabee) and Eben Elijah Rogers. She moved with her family to California at age two and a half. She got the nickname "Casey" when her neighborhood playmates discovered how well she handled a baseball bat ("I could hit a baseball farther than anybody in grammar school except Robert Lewis - he and I were always the opposing captains of the sixth grade baseball teams!"); she later changed the "C" in "Casey" to a "K". Paramount changed her name to Laura Elliott during her late 1940s-early '50s stint there, but she went back to Kasey Rogers soon after leaving that studio. Twice-married and the mother of four (and a grandmother), Rogers turned her talents to writing and development, including the proposed new TV series Son of a Witch.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com>
- SpousesWalter Winslow (Bud) Lewis III(1955 - May 1974) (divorced, 3 children)James Farrell Donnellan(September 29, 1945 - ?) (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- ParentsMae Rogers (Mocabee)Eben Rogers
- Strangling Victim from Strangers On A Train, and the 2nd "Louise Tate" on Bewitched
- After battling throat cancer for many years, she went into cardiac arrest and suffered a stroke, dying from complications of the stroke.
- Pioneering women's motocross promoter.
- Established the PowderPuffs Unlimited Riders and Racers association and spearheaded its first race. A year later she persuaded the promoter of the Superbowl of Motocross, held at the Los Angeles Coliseum, to allow women to compete. She stopped racing altogether in 1977.
- Played a brief but memorable role as Farley Granger's caustic estranged wife who is strangled by Robert Walker in Alfred Hitchcock's classic Strangers on a Train (1951).
- Had red hair. Originally wore a black bouffant wig on the Bewitched (1964) series in order to resemble the "first" Louise Tate, Irene Vernon. Once she was firmly established in the role, she eventually stopped wearing the wig.
- Study, study, study. And don't leave home for Hollywood until you are a top-notch actor. The competition is incredible.
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