Question: A Woman's Face starred which actress who began her career as a showgirl?

Context articles: Joan Crawford
Alexandra Pigg
Marisa Maresca
Bambi (2013 film)
A Woman's Face
Ann Sothern
Angel Collinson
Linda Stirling
Sandra Bullock filmography
Sigrid Thornton

Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; (March 23, 190?
 – May 10, 1977) was an American film and television actress who began her career as a dancer and stage showgirl.
 In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Crawford tenth on its list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
Alexandra Pigg (born 1962 in Knotty Ash, Liverpool) is a British actress who first came to prominence as Petra Taylor in the TV soap opera "Brookside".
 Her best-known film appearances are as Elaine in "Letter to Brezhnev" (1985), for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award, and as Bridget Baines in "A Chorus of Disapproval" (1988).
 She also starred in the BBC film "Smart Money" (1986), "Strapless" (1989) with Bridget Fonda, "Chicago Joe and the Showgirl" (1990) with Kiefer Sutherland and Emily Lloyd, "Bullseye!
" (1990) starring Michael Caine and Roger Moore, and "Immortal Beloved" (1994) with Gary Oldman.
Marisa Maresca (17 July 1923 - 18 August 1988) was an Italian showgirl, soubrette, and theatre dancer.
 Her mother was also a soubrette, her father was an impresario, and her uncle sang operettas.
 Her sister Lydia Maresca, herself an actress with the stage name Lidia Martora, was the wife of Peppino De Filippo.
 In 1938, at the age of 15, Maresca joined the company of Erminio Macario, becoming one of the comedy performers in Turin.
 Over the next decade, she worked with Carlo Dapporto, where, in imitation of Josephine Baker, Maresca appeared on stage in a thong and bra of bananas.
 In other shows, she performed topless, while in still others, she wore only the heads of three black fox to cover the appropriate areas.
 In 1946, she created her own company, and a few months later, she took on a young novice comedian, Walter Chiari, with whom she began a relationship.
 In 1950, she retired from acting to marry Count Corrado Agusta, owner (with his brothers) of Agusta; they had a son Richard, nicknamed Rocky.
 Maresca's husband left her for Francesca Vacca Graffagni.
Bambi is a French documentary film, released in 2013.
 Directed by Sébastien Lifshitz, the film is a profile of Marie-Pierre Pruvot, an Algerian-born trans woman who had a long and prominent career as a dancer and showgirl in Paris in the 1950s and 1960s, under the stage name Bambi, before becoming a university professor.
A Woman's Face is a 1941 American film noir drama directed by George Cukor, starring Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas and Conrad Veidt.
 It tells the story of Anna Holm, a facially disfigured blackmailer, who because of her appearance, despises everyone she encounters.
 When a plastic surgeon corrects this disfigurement, Anna becomes torn between the hope of starting a new life and a return to her dark past.
 Most of the film is told in flashbacks as witnesses in a courtroom give their testimonies.
Ann Sothern (born Harriette Arlene Lake; January 22, 1909 – March 15, 2001) was an American actress who worked on stage, radio, film, and television, in a career that spanned nearly six decades.
 Sothern began her career in the late 1920s in bit parts in films.
 In 1930, she made her Broadway stage debut and soon worked her way up to starring roles.
 In 1939, MGM cast her as Maisie Ravier, a brash yet lovable Brooklyn showgirl.
 The character, based on the "Maisie" short stories by Nell Martin, proved to be popular and spawned a successful film series ("Congo Maisie", "Gold Rush Maisie", "Up Goes Maisie", etc.) and a network radio series ("The Adventures of Maisie").
Angel Collinson is an American professional free skier.
 She was the first woman to win the "Best Line" award at the "Powder Magazine" annual industry awards in 2015.
 That year, she starred in big-time ski film "Paradise Waits," by Teton Gravity Research (TGR)"," in which she became the first woman to appear in a TGR finale.
 Today, she's sponsored by The North Face and continues her career as a big mountain skier.
Linda Stirling (October 11, 1921 – July 20, 1997) was an American showgirl, model, and actress.
 In her later years, she had a second career as a college English professor for more than two decades.
 She is most famous for her roles in movie serials.
Sandra Bullock is an American actress who made her film debut with a minor role in the 1987 thriller "Hangmen".
 She made her television debut in the television film "Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman" (1989) and played the lead role in the short-lived sitcom "Working Girl" (1990) before making her breakthrough starring in the action film "Speed" (1994).
 She starred with Sylvester Stallone in "Demolition Man" (1994).
 Bullock founded her own production company, Fortis Films, and starred in the romantic comedy "While You Were Sleeping" in 1995.
 Her performance in the film earned her first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.
 The following year, Bullock starred with Matthew McConaughey in the film adaptation of John Grisham's novel "A Time to Kill" (1996).
 In 1997, she reprised her "Speed" role in the sequel, "".
 The following year, Bullock starred in the romantic comedy "Practical Magic", voiced Miriam in the animated biblical film "The Prince of Egypt" and also executive produced her first film, the romantic drama "Hope Floats".
Sigrid Thornton (born 12 February 1959) is an Australian actress.
 Her television work includes "Prisoner" (1979–80), "All the Rivers Run" (1983), "SeaChange" (1998–2000) and "Wentworth" (2016–).
 She also starred in the American Western series "Paradise" (1988–91).
 Her film appearances include "Snapshot" (1979), "The Man from Snowy River" (1982), "Street Hero" (1984) and "Face to Face" (2011).
 She won the AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama for the 2015 miniseries ""