Legacy Matters

Gangster's Moll

I would love to talk to the Telegraph's obituary writers if only to learn what Americans, not the famous ones, the unusual ones, about whom they have already written an obituary.  Like this one

Liz Renay, who died on Monday aged 80, was by turns a Las Vegas showgirl, gangster's moll, convicted felon, cult actress, stripper, streaker and charm school instructor.

Convicted of perjury in 1959 when her boyfriend, the racketeer Micky Cohen, was tried for tax evasion, she spent 27 months in prison, a sentence she always regarded as fatal to her career prospects as a budding film star.

An unhappy life.