Question:  Bruce Lester himself for a time appearing alongside stars such as an American film and television actress who began her career as a dancer and what?
Context: Crystal "CC" Zhang (Chinese: 张熙媛, born 12 November 1989), is a Chinese actress and model.  Born in Shenyang, Zhang made her professional acting debut with the role of Liu Xinmei in the 2011 Chinese television drama ""Before the Dawn"" (Chinese: 黎明绝杀) alongside Chen Zihan.  She has since had roles across film and television, appearing alongside such Asian stars as Zhang Fengyi, Bosco Wong, and Tiffany Tang. Manorama (16 August 1926 – 15 February 2008) was a Bollywood character actress known best for her role as the comical tyrant aunt in "Seeta Aur Geeta" (1972) and film like "Ek Phool Do Maali" (1969) and "Do Kaliyaan" (1968).  She started her career as a child artiste in 1936 in Lahore, under the name Baby Iris.  Thereafter she made her debut as in adult actress in 1941 to her final role in "Water" in 2005, her career extending over 60 years.  Through her career she acted in over 160 films.  After playing heroine roles in the early 1940s she settled into playing villainous or comic roles.  She played comic roles in superhit films such as "Half Ticket" appearing alongside Kishore Kumar and the legendary Madhubala.  She gave memorable performances in "Dus Lakh", "Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje", "Mujhe Jeene Do", "Mehboob ki Menhdi", "Caravan", "Bombay to Goa" and "Lawaris". The Mysterious Doctor is a 1943 American horror film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and written by Richard Weil.  The film stars John Loder, Eleanor Parker, Bruce Lester, Lester Matthews and Forrester Harvey.  The film was released by Warner Bros.on March 3, 1943. Peggy Pearce (June 4, 1894 – February 26, 1975) (born Velma Pearce) was an American film actress of the silent era.  Between 1913 and 1920 - working primarily in short subjects at the L-KO Kompany and Keystone Studios - she appeared alongside stars including Charles Chaplin (with whom she was also romantically involved for a while), Roscoe Arbuckle, Billie Ritchie, Slim Summerville, Ford Sterling, and Mabel Normand. Daniel Padilla started his acting career in television as Daniel Ledesma in "Gimik 2010", before landing the lead role Patrick Rivero in "Growing Up" (2011).  Padilla finally starred in a critically acclaimed prime-time television series "Princess and I" (2012-2013), and garnering further recognition for appearing alongside Kathryn Bernardo in the "Got to Believe" (2013-2014).  Padilla began transition to more adult roles as Angelo Buenavista in ABS-CBN top seller international distribution program, remake of "Pangako Sa 'Yo" (2015). The role earned him first nomination at the 2015 PMPC Star Awards for Best Actor.  All of his soap operas listed as the most watch Filipino television programs. Tanisha Mukerji (born 3 March 1978) is an Indian film actress known for her works predominantly in Bollywood, and few Telugu and Tamil films.  Part of the Mukherjee-Samarth family, she is the daughter of filmmaker Shomu Mukherjee and actress Tanuja Samarth, and the younger sister of actress Kajol.  She made her debut with the Hindi film "Sssshhh..." in 2003.  She had her first hit with Ram Gopal Varma's "Sarkar", appearing alongside Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan.  She also was a contestant on the reality show "Bigg Boss 7" in 2013. Ann Carter (June 16, 1936 – January 27, 2014) was an American child actress, who worked with dozens of film stars, compiling an "unimaginably distinguished résumé" despite an acting career which lasted only slightly more than a decade.  She is best known for her starring role as Amy Reed in the film "The Curse of the Cat People" (1944), and also acted alongside stars including Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Bing Crosby, Fredric March, and Barbara Stanwyck among others. Bruce Lester (6 June 1912 – 13 June 2008) was a South African-born English film actor with over 60 screen appearances to his credit between 1934 and his retirement from acting in 1958.  Lester's career divided into two distinct periods.  Between 1934 and 1938, billed as Bruce Lister, he appeared in upwards of 20 British films, mostly of the cheaply shot and quickly forgotten quota quickie variety.  He then moved to the U.S., where he changed his surname to Lester, and found himself for a time appearing in some of the biggest prestige productions of their day, alongside stars such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn.  Lester himself never achieved star-billing, but was said to have remarked that this at least meant that if a film was a flop, no blame ever fell on his shoulders. 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. To Be a Lady is a 1934 British romance drama, directed and produced by George King, and starring Chili Bouchier (credited here as Dorothy Bouchier) and Bruce Lester.  The film is the first screen editing credit of American film editor Elmo Williams.
Answer: stage showgirl