Liz Renay

'Liz Renay' (qv)'s extraordinary life could almost be a movie script. Raised by fanatically religious parents, she ran away from home to win a 'Marilyn Monroe' (qv) lookalike contest, and become a showgirl during World War II. She eventually became a "moll" to Los Angeles gangster 'Mickey Cohen' (qv), 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.::A. Nonymous