Word: renay
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...perfect set-up--an afternoon alone with Liz Renay in her Hollywood apartment...
Clearly, it was to be an afternoon for euphemism. Not that language--particularly as handled by the sensation-seeking press--has ever been entirely upfront in dealing with the tawdrily notorious Miss Renay...
...newspapers never really did know what to call the lady in question--or else, if they did, they weren't letting it get any further than the inevitable city room locker jokes. In the news columns of the fifties, Liz Renay was variously described as "glamorous," "beauteous," "redhead," or "blonde," as an "acquaintance," "playgirl," "entertainer," or "stripper," as an "acquaintance," "girlfriend," or "date" of gambler Mickey Cohen and gangster Anthony Coppola...
...when Miss Renay was hurried off to California's Terminal Island on a three-year perjury charge, the adjectives were no longer necessary. Her name said it all. Liz Renay--one-time winner of a Marilyn Monroe look-alike contest, four times divorced and occasional artist--had herself become a grade-B, low-budget Hollywood legend even though the studios had long since black balled her for fear of her shadowy connections...