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Pearl Elizabeth Dobbins (April 14, 1926 – January 22, 2007), known professionally as Liz Renay, was an American author and actress who appeared in John Waters' film Desperate Living (1977). She was born Pearl Elizabeth Dobbins on April 14, 1926, in Chandler, Arizona, to William Andrew Dobbins (1898–1986) and his wife Ada May (née Phillips) (1904–1982), who were described as being "evangelical parents". In 1949, Renay was named Miss Stardust of Arizona and in the contest won "$500 cash, a trip to New York, and a modeling contract in the 1949 contest."She was known more as a performer with ties to celebrities, usually actors, rather than as an actor herself. Nevertheless, she did play the lead role in John Waters' film Desperate Living and appeared on an episode of Adam-12 as a burlesque dancer who calls the police about a peeping tom outside her home (season five, November 1972, episode "Harry Nobody"). Her daughter Brenda and she toured with an on-stage striptease act. The act ended when her daughter Brenda committed suicide on her 39th birthday in 1982.
Renay was mobster Mickey Cohen's girlfriend. Renay was convicted of perjury in 1959 and served 27 months at Terminal Island. Liz was married a total of seven times. In a tell-all book about her many relationships with men both famous and not so famous, titled My First 2,000 Men, she claimed flings with Joe DiMaggio, Regis Philbin, Glenn Ford, and Cary Grant. Renay's other books include My Face for the World to See and Staying Young (Lyle Stuart, 1982). My Face for the World to See was reissued in 2002, headlined "A Cult Classic", with a foreword by John Waters. Waters integrated the title into the dialogue of his film Female Trouble (1974) before working on his film Desperate Living with Renay.
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