Liz Renay(1926-2007)
- Actress
Liz Renay's extraordinary life could almost be a movie script. Raised
by fanatically religious parents, she ran away from home to win a
Marilyn Monroe lookalike contest, and
become a showgirl during World War II. She eventually became a "moll"
to Los Angeles gangster Mickey Cohen, and
when he was arrested she refused to co-operate with the authorities and
was sentenced to three years in Terminal Island prison, where she wrote
her autobiography. On release she became a stripper and self-publicist,
performing the first mother-and-daughter strip and the first
grandmother to streak down Hollywood Boulevard.
