Question:  When Ladies Meet starred the actress who began her career as what?
Context: 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. Magalir Mattum (English: Ladies Only ) is a 2017 Indian Tamil drama film written and directed by Bramma, as his second venture after "Kuttram Kadithal" (2015).  The film features Jyothika, Saranya, Urvashi and Bhanupriya in the lead roles, while Nassar and Livingston play pivotal roles.  The film narrates the story of three female school friends who reunite after thirty-eight years, despite the pressures put upon them by the men in their lives.  Produced by Suriya and featuring music composed by Ghibran, the venture began production in July 2016 and had a theatrical release on 15 September 2017 . Magalir Mattum received Positive feedback from Critics and Audiences.It's declared as Superhit at Box Office after Jyothika's last hit Movie 36 Vayadhinile. Success Meet of the Movie was held after one week with Crew of Movie. Gilly Louise Scarlett Flaherty (born 24 August 1991) is an English footballer who plays for FA WSL club Chelsea Ladies.  Flaherty is a former Arsenal Ladies player who began her career in Millwall Lionesses' youth teams.  She usually plays in the centre back position and represented England at youth level before making her senior debut in October 2015. When Ladies Meet is a 1933 Pre-Code film starring Ann Harding, Myrna Loy, Robert Montgomery, and Alice Brady.  The film is the first adaptation of the 1932 Rachel Crothers play of the same name.  It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Cedric Gibbons. When Ladies Meet is a 1941 American romantic comedy film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Herbert Marshall, and Spring Byington in a story about a novelist in love with her publisher.  The screenplay by S.K. Lauren and Anita Loos was based upon a 1932 play by Rachel Crothers.  The film was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, who also co-produced the film (with Orville O. Dull).  The film was a remake of the 1933 pre-Code film of the same name, which starred Ann Harding, Myrna Loy, Robert Montgomery, and Frank Morgan in the roles played by Garson, Crawford, Taylor and Marshall. Sonja Henie (8 April 1912 – 12 October 1969) was a Norwegian figure skater and film star.  She was a three-time Olympic Champion (1928, 1932, 1936) in Ladies' Singles, a ten-time World Champion (1927–1936) and a six-time European Champion (1931–1936).  Henie won more Olympic and World titles than any other ladies' figure skater.  At the height of her acting career, she was one of the highest paid stars in Hollywood and starred in a series of box-office hits, including "Thin Ice" (1937), "My Lucky Star" (1938), "Second Fiddle" (1939) and "Sun Valley Serenade" (1941). Helen Jane Ward (née Lander; born 26 April 1986) is an international football striker who most recently played club football for FA WSL team Yeovil Town Ladies.  Ward previously spent three seasons with Chelsea Ladies, whom she joined from Arsenal in 2010.  Born in the London Borough of Brent, Ward began her career with 14 years at Watford Ladies where she was a prolific goalscorer and team captain. Bowie Wu Fung (born 18 January 1932) is a Hong Kong actor and director with family roots in Guangdong, China.  A matinee idol in the 1950s and 1960s, he began his acting career in 1953, becoming an overnight success with his debut film, "Men's Hearts".  In his long career he has starred opposite many of Hong Kong cinema's leading ladies, and of particular note are his many collaborations with Josephine Siao in 1960s musicals.  For these roles he earned the nickname the "Dance King" for his dancing skills.  In the 1970s Wu Fung began working in television and continues to do so as a contract artist to Hong Kong's TVB, with occasional guest appearances in films. Francia White (1909 - October 22, 1984) was an American soprano who had an active career in concerts, operas, operettas, radio, television, and film during the late 1920s through the 1940s.  She began her career as a vaudeville performer in her late teens and then began singing in more serious classical music repertoire during the mid-1930s.  She drew the attention of Hollywood and began working as a ghost singer for films in 1934.  She soon broke into radio in 1935 and was highly active in that medium until 1941.  On television she starred on the musical variety show, "The Bell Telephone Hour", from 1940-1942.  In addition to her radio work, she is chiefly remembered for helping to launch Edwin Lester's Los Angeles Civic Light Opera in 1938 and was one of their main leading ladies up through 1942. Gladys Bagg Taber (1899–1980), author of 59 books, including the Stillmeadow books, and columnist for "Ladies' Home Journal" and "Family Circle", was born in Colorado Springs on April 12, 1899, and spent most of her early years moving because of her father's work as a mining engineer.  She lived in New Mexico, California, Illinois and Wisconsin, and spent time on her grandfather's farm in Massachusetts.  Later, she received a bachelor's degree from Wellesley in 1920 and an M.A. from Lawrence College in 1921.  She married Frank Taber, and they had a daughter, Constance, which interrupted her academic career; then for more than 20 years, she lived in Stillmeadow, her vintage 1690 Southbury, Connecticut, farmhouse, having commuted to New York part of the time to teach creative writing at Columbia University from 1921 to 1926.  The house was jointly owned by the Tabers and their friends Eleanor and Max Mayer.  She died on March 11, 1980.  Her column "Diary of Domesticity" began in the "Ladies' Home Journal" in November 1937; "Butternut Wisdom" ran in the "Family Circle" from 1959 to 1967.
Answer: dancer and stage showgirl