Kasey Rogers
April 14, 2017 11:01 AM Subscribe
Hitchcock fans might recognize Kasey Rogers as the ex-wife doomed as soon as strangers met on a train, Bewitched fans might recognize as Darren's boss's second wife Louise Tate*. But after all that, she became involved with motorcycles after her young son began riding and this led her to motocross racing. In 1972, she began writing a Powder Puff column for Modern Cycle Magazine and did feature stories on the mini-cycle nationals and other racing events, and eventually she worked with the American Motocross Association to establish PURR ("PowderPuffs Unlimited Riders and Racers"), bringing women into the male-dominated sport, in 1974 with a national event sponsored by Yamaha (original program pdf ). PURR would later evolve into what is now motocross's Women's Pro-Class division.
* or the second woman to play the same wife, as was apparently more common on the show than I realized
More links:
2006 Kasey Rogers obituary in Motocross Action Magazine, bewitched.net, L.A. Times
ZL. A Brief History of the First Women’s Motocross Division
* or the second woman to play the same wife, as was apparently more common on the show than I realized
More links:
2006 Kasey Rogers obituary in Motocross Action Magazine, bewitched.net, L.A. Times
ZL. A Brief History of the First Women’s Motocross Division
Not to pick nits, but if she had been an ex-wife, there would have been no need to murder her. It is her refusal to give her husband a divorce that makes him wish she were dead.
posted by pasici at 2:28 PM on April 14, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by pasici at 2:28 PM on April 14, 2017 [2 favorites]
(Argh, I knew somebody was going to call me out on this; when I read the draft, I realized it was inaccurate but forgot to change it.)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 3:15 PM on April 14, 2017
posted by MCMikeNamara at 3:15 PM on April 14, 2017
I was only a little guy but I can remember her as Julie Anderson on "Peyton Place". A few scenes with Barbara Perkins (Betty Anderson) are still stuck in my head for some reason. Maybe because I had to "sneak watch" PP because my Catholic school had condemned the program.
I never knew she was in "Strangers...." Guess what I'm watching tonight?
posted by james33 at 7:12 AM on April 16, 2017
I never knew she was in "Strangers...." Guess what I'm watching tonight?
posted by james33 at 7:12 AM on April 16, 2017
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I love that there's a Bewitched angle into motocross, because I loved Bewitched as a kid, and my in-laws and their moto scene are strange and scary to my coastal wimpy self.
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 11:18 AM on April 14, 2017 [2 favorites]