 She appeared in the stage production "Miss Moffat", a musical adaptation of her film "The Corn Is Green", but after the show was panned by the Philadelphia critics during its pre-Broadway run, she cited a back injury, and abandoned the show, which closed immediately.She played supporting roles in Luigi Comencini's "Lo Scopone scientifico" (1972) with Italian actor Alberto Sordi and Joseph Cotten, "Burnt Offerings" (1976), a Dan Curtis film, and "The Disappearance of Aimee" (1976), but she clashed with Karen Black and Faye Dunaway, the stars of the two latter respective productions, because she felt that neither extended her an appropriate degree of respect and that their behavior on the film sets was unprofessional.In 1977, Davis became the first woman to receive the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award.