Strange Cargo is a 1940 American romantic drama film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Frank Borzage and starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in a story about a group of fugitive prisoners from a French penal colony.
 The screenplay by Lawrence Hazard was based upon the 1936 novel, "Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep", by Richard Sale.
 The film was produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and was the eighth and last film pairing of Crawford and Gable.
 The supporting cast includes Peter Lorre.
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.
Strange Cargo is a 1936 British crime film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Kathleen Kelly, George Mozart and Moore Marriott.
 The film is notable for an early performance by George Sanders who went on to success in Hollywood.
 It was made at Elstree Studios for release by Paramount Pictures.
 It is also known by the alternative title Breakers Ahead.
 Criminal gun runners smuggle illegal arms onto a British ship at a South American port.
Amanda Wyss (born November 24, 1960) is an American film and television actress.
 She began her career in the early 1980s and first gained notice for her role as Lisa in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (1982).
 She then rose to international prominence after playing Tina Gray in the fantasy film "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984).
 She subsequently starred in "Silverado" (1985), "Better Off Dead" (1985), "Powwow Highway" (1989), "Shakma" (1990), and "The Id" (2016).
 Outside of film, Wyss has guest starred on a variety of television series including "Cheers" (1985-1986), "Charmed" (1999), and "Dexter" (2006).
 Wyss is also known for her role as Randi McFarland in the television series "" (1992-1993).
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.
Lawrence Hazard (May 12, 1897 – April 1, 1959) was an American playwright and screenwriter active from 1933 to 1958.
 His career was cut short when he died at age 61 in 1959.
 His films include "Man's Castle" (1933) directed by Frank Borzage and starring Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young; "Mannequin" (1937) directed by Borzage and starring Joan Crawford and Spencer Tracy; "Strange Cargo" (1940) directed by Borzage and starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford; "The Spoilers" (1942) starring Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne; "Jackass Mail" (1942) starring Wallace Beery; "Dakota" (1945) starring John Wayne and Walter Brennan, and numerous other films as well as scripts for television anthologies in the 1950s.
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.
Gloria Pall (July 15, 1927 – December 30, 2012) was an American model, showgirl, film and television actress, author and businesswoman.
María de los Ángeles López Segovia (20 March 1936 – 19 August 2015), better known as Lina Morgan, was a Spanish film, theatre and television actress and showgirl.
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").

Question: Strange Cargo starred what American film and television actress who began her career as a dancer and stage showgirl?
Answer: Joan Crawford