 The same year, Davis refused the title role in "Mildred Pierce" (1945), a role for which Joan Crawford won an Academy Award, and instead made "The Corn Is Green" (1945), based on a play by Emlyn Williams.In "The Corn Is Green" Davis played Miss Moffat, an English teacher who saves a young Welsh miner (John Dall) from a life in the coal pits, by offering him education.The part had been played in the theatre by Ethel Barrymore (who was 61 at the play's premiere), but Warner Bros. felt that the film version should depict the character as a younger woman.