Lana Layne

Lana Layne, aka Rosemary "Peaches" Cassidy, is the main villainess from "Goodbye, George," episode 2.10 of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

She was played by the late Patricia Barry.

Backstory
Before she was known as Lana Layne, she was Rosemary Cassidy, and she was once married to a convict named George Cassidy. Nicknamed "Peaches," Rosemary moved on from George after he was (apparently) killed in during a bank robbery, and she changed her name to Lana Layne and became a successful actress. Unbeknownst to Lana, George was not dead, but he was in jail for five years prior to the episode's events.

Events
Lana is on the set of one of her films while she is being interviewed for her nomination for an Academy Award. During the interview, she suddenly sees who she believes to be her husband, George, who she had thought was deceased. Lana and her fiancee, Harry Lawrence, brushed it off as nerves, but her intuition turns out to be true when George appears in her home, much to Lana's shock and dismay. Lana's reunion with George is not a happy one, as she adamantly informed her husband that she intended on keeping her past a secret.

Lana encountered George again at a gathering in her honor, where George informs Lana that he wants to remain married to Lana and share her success, stating that he will get half of her fortune if they divorce. Lana felt that her past being out in the open would ruin her career, and while George attempted to embrace her, Lana struck George in the head with one of her trophies, killing him instantly. Once Harry learns about George and his murder, the pair worked together to cover it up, all while announcing their engagement. Their plan was to bury George in Mexico while they were on their honeymoon, while keeping the location a secret from the media. In the last scene of the episode, however, Lana and Harry are surprised by gossip columnist Haila French and a number of cameramen, who planned to interview the couple regarding their honeymoon. The group was shocked to see Harry with George's body, and as a result, both Lana and George were arrested--with their gruesome story featured on the front page of the newspaper.