Though I know this thread is about actresses.
She failed to be convicted because she took off her dress and burned it, and was able to easily wash the rest of the blood off in a bath.
This is an excellent example of how nudity is not added for gratuitous purposes but because it's essential to the plot.
She got the chance to test our her musical talents a year later, however when she starred in the 1962 film, Gypsy.