Liz Renay, née Pearl Elizabeth Dobbins (April 14, 1926 – January 22, 2007) 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 A. and Ada M. (Phillips) Dobbins (1904-1982), who were described as being "evangelical parents."
Renay was mobster Mickey Cohen's girlfriend. Renay was convicted of perjury in 1959 and served 27 months at Terminal Island.
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 also appeared on an episode of Adam-12 as a burlesque dancer who calls the police about a peeping tom outside her home (Season 5, November 1972, show entitled "Harry Nobody"). On stage, she and her daughter, Brenda, toured with a striptease act. The act ended when her daughter Brenda committed suicide on her 39th birthday in 1982.
Renay is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department of central France.
In a lonely railway station
There's a man who sits and wonders
If he ever will be going home again
And his eyes can still remember
As he sees the faded picture
Of the girl who said she'd always be his friend
So he lights another cigarette
And wonders if she'll ever get the message
In the letter that he sent
Chorus:
Lucy Brown,
We been so long apart now I'm cryin'
I'm goin' down
Though I'm tryin'
Feel I'm dyin'!
Lucy Brown
Now we're so far apart feel I'm sinkin',
Since I been gone
I been thinkin',
Can't help thinkin'
Of Lucy Brown
Well he hasn't got the money
To get back to the city,
So he sits alone and stares into the floor
Then he hears a whistle blowin'
As a train pulls in the station
And he looks up and she's standin' by the door
And she smiles at him so sweetly
As she's holdin' up the letter
And he looks at her and says to her once more
Chorus twice:
Lucy Brown,
We been so far apart now I'm cryin'
I been so down,
I was tryin',
I was dyin'
Lucy Brown,
We been so far apart I been sinkin'
Since I been gone
I been thinkin',
Can't help thinkin'