Liz Renay is Dead

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/movies/29renay.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Liz Renay, a boisterous, buxom cult film actress who worked as a stripper, wrote several books and got a little too close to some mobsters in the late 1950s, leading to a three-year prison term, died last Monday near her home in Las Vegas. She was 80.
The cause was internal bleeding, said her son, Johnny McLain.

In her prime — at 5-foot-7, with measurements of 40-26-36 and blond hair that her son said had probably started out as auburn — Ms. Renay appeared in 18 sexploitation movies, among them “The Thrill Killers” (1964), “Lady Godiva Rides” (1969) and “Blackenstein” (1973).

But she is perhaps best known for her starring role in the 1977 John Waters fairy-tale melodrama “Desperate Living,” about a politically corrupt town called Mortville where everyone lives outside of conventional society. Ms. Renay played Muffy St. Jacques, who kills her drug-tripping babysitter by smothering her in a bowl of dog food.

In an interview on Friday, Mr. Waters said he had spoken to Ms. Renay two weeks ago. “She was very much a glamour girl right up to the end,” he said. “She always played the glamorous Vegas showgirl type, no matter how old she was.”

. . . much more at the link; worth reading.

[peekaloo]

1. RIP

If there's an afterworld I hope she, Divine and Edith Massey are sharing a larf.

[asthmaticeog]

2. "You see, I wasn't always like this. Oh, I mean I was always stunningly beautiful..."

Rest in peace, Muffy St. Jacques.

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3. Kick.

[xchrom]

4. there simply aren't enough liz renays' in the world.

may her star shine brightly in the heavens forever and ever.

[sundog]

5. sad

i didn't know anything about that till last night :(

[formerrepuke]

6. "Mole! Get that disgusting worm away from me!...arrgh..barrrf.."

..and then, Mole cuts the 'disgusting worm' off, throws it out the front door, and a dog comes by and eats it. So funny it makes you sick; so sick it's funny. RIP Muffy- you always wanted 'heavenly support' and now you've got it!