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The Corn Is Green Evans, Marge Redmond as Mrs. Watty, and Mia Dillon as Bessie Watty. The show closed September 18, 1983, after 32 performances. In 1985 the play enjoyed a successful revival at the Old Vic Theatre, London, starring Deborah Kerr. In 2009, Boston's Huntington Theatre Company presented a revival of "The Corn Is Green" starring Kate Burton and her son Morgan Ritchie. In 1945, a film adaptation was made, with Bette Davis (herself of Welsh descent) as Moffat. In the late 1970s, Davis returned to the role in a musical stage adaptation that proved to be a disaster. The setting was changed