Kasey Rogers

Kasey Rogers was an American actress and writer, born Josie Imogene Rogers in Morehouse, Missouri, who moved with her family to California as a small child. Under contract to Paramount Pictures she used the names Laura Elliott and Laura Elliot, appearing in films such as Special Agent, Samson and Delilah, Silver City, Paid in Full and Two Lost Worlds. Her best-known screen role came in Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951), as Miriam, the scheming wife of Guy Haines. She turned to television in the mid-1950s, guest-starring on series including The Lone Ranger, Maverick, Perry Mason and Wanted: Dead or Alive. In 1964 she was cast as Julie Anderson on Peyton Place, and in 1966 she left that show to replace Irene Vernon as Louise Tate on Bewitched, playing the part until 1972. She then largely retired from acting and wrote five books with Mark Wood, beginning with The Bewitched Cookbook: Magic in the Kitchen (1996).