Question: Where did the female star of the film Guilty by Suspicion begin her stage career ?
Context: Manfish is a 1956 adventure film, released by United Artists in 1956 and originally filmed in DeLuxe Color.  Filmed in Jamaica, it was released in Great Britain as "Calypso".  It was based on the stories "The Gold-Bug" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe.  Actor John Bromfield starred as Captain Brannigan and Lon Chaney Jr. played the role of Swede.  The leading female star was Tessa Prendergast, who played Alita.  Tessa later became a fashion designer and designed the white bikini of Ursula Andress for "Dr. No".  The film also featured the motion picture debut of Barbara Nichols. Kay Francis (January 13, 1905 – August 26, 1968) was an American stage and film actress.  After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star at the Warner Brothers studio and the highest-paid American film actress.  Some of her film-related material and personal papers are available to scholars and researchers in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives. Guilty by Suspicion is a 1991 American drama film about the Hollywood blacklist and associated activities stemming from McCarthyism and the House Un-American Activities Committee.  Written and directed by Irwin Winkler, it starred Robert De Niro, Annette Bening and George Wendt. Helen Ware (October 15, 1877 – January 25, 1939); born Helen Remer, to John August Remer and Elinor ("neé" Ware), was an American stage and film actress.  Before becoming an actress she worked as a governess.  She had a successful Broadway stage career making her first appearance in 1899 with Maude Adams and by her thirties was playing the character parts for which she became famous.  She began playing character parts in silent films in 1914 and continued into the sound era.  Like Louise Closser Hale, Ware was a raven haired woman for most of her stage career, but adopted an all blond coif towards the late 1920s at the end of the silent era and into the talkies. Guadalupe Bracho Pérez-Gavilán, better known as Andrea Palma (16 April 1903 in Durango, Mexico – 6 October 1987 in Mexico City, Mexico) was a Mexican film stage and television actress.  She was considered the first major female star of the Mexican cinema after her role in the Mexican film "La Mujer del Puerto" (1934). The Bigamist is a 1953 American drama film noir directed by Ida Lupino starring Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn and Edmond O'Brien.  Producer/Screenwriter Collier Young was married to Fontaine at the time and had previously been married to Lupino.  "The Bigamist" has been cited as the first film in which a female star of the film directed herself. Fredrica Löf, also known as Fredrique Löwen (née "Johanna Fredrika Löf"; Stockholm, October 1760 – Torsåker, Södermanland, 17 July 1813), was a Swedish stage actress.  She was the first female star at the newly founded national stage Royal Dramatic Theater, which was founded the year of her debut. Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress.  Known for her fierce independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years.  She appeared in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and she received four Academy Awards—a record for any performer—for Best Actress.  In 1999, Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Marie Baptiste née "Dumont", also known as Mademoiselle le Prévost (or Prevot) (born in Bordeaux, France - died after 1786), was a French actress and singer.  She spent a large part of her career in Sweden, where she was the perhaps most significant female star of the French Theatre during the Age of Liberty. Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress.  She began her career on stage with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival company in 1980, and played Lady Macbeth in 1984 at the American Conservatory Theatre.  She was nominated for the 1987 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in "Coastal Disturbances".  She is a four-time Academy Award nominee; for "The Grifters" (1990), "American Beauty" (1999), "Being Julia" (2004) and "The Kids Are All Right" (2010).  In 2006, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Answer: the Colorado Shakespeare Festival company