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Kasey Rogers
Age: 80 (passed away Jul. 6th, 2006)
Height: 5' 5"
Birth Place: Morehouse, Missouri, USA
Born: Dec. 15th, 1925
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BIOGRAPHY: Hailing from Morehouse, Missouri, she was born Imogene Rogers and moved with her family to California at age 2 1/2. 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.
TRIVIA:
- Her son Mike took up motorcycle riding in the early 1970s and Kasey followed suit. She began to race competitively and wrote a column on women's racing for Modern Cycle magazine and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and feature stories on racing events.
- After battling throat cancer for many years, Kasey went into cardiac arrest and suffered a stroke, dying from complications of the stroke.
- 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.
- Spotted by a talent agent and signed with Paramount in 1949.
- Played a brief but memorable role as 'Farley Granger' (qv)'s caustic estranged wife who is strangled by 'Robert Walker (I)' (qv) in Hitchcock's classic _Strangers on a Train (1951)_ (qv).
- Was seen by a talent scout, auditioned at Paramount, made a screen test and was cast in a leading role (_Special Agent (1949)_ (qv))in a movie the next week,
- Played leads in high school plays.
- Studied piano, accordion, acting, and elocution from the time she was 7 or 8 years old.
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