During the 1950s, Davis made nine movies, two of which she filmed abroad. Her best work was seen in The Star (1952), for which, in a role based on her rival Joan Crawford, Davis received Oscar nomination number nine. In The Virgin Queen (1955) she portrayed Elizabeth I for the second time. The Catered Affair (1956), with the role of Aggie, was her favorite, despite critical disapproval. Some critics reprimanded her for selecting scripts designed more to showcase her performances than to create quality films. She returned to the stage in 1952 with Two's Company (1952), a revue, and The World of Carl Sandburg (1959), a program of readings in which she performed with Merrill and other actors. She and Merrill, an alcoholic who was also physically abusive, divorced in 1960. Davis appeared on Broadway in the supporting role of Maxine in Tennessee Williams's play The Night of the Iguana (1961), but she was unhappy and departed after four months. She made eight movies in the 1960s, of which Pocketful of Miracles (1961) and The Nanny (1965) were second-rate offerings. However, she had good material in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962); Dead Ringer (1964), in which she played twins; and Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964). In Baby Jane, one of several macabre horror flicks she starred in, Davis played an unbalanced former child star opposite Joan Crawford as her sister, and their rivalry afforded journalists a field day. It also inspired Davis's tenth Academy Award nomination and became an international smash. Despite having signed on to the film for a small fee of $25,000, Davis earned more than $1 million from Baby Jane because she owned a percentage of the take. In early 1962, before the movie was released, Davis, unaware of the movie's potential, took out a controversial, self-mocking advertisement in Variety, noting that she was "mobile still and more affable than rumor would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood." Davis's work in Sweet Charlotte, which costarred Olivia De Havilland and was of the same genre as Baby Jane, was considered her best of the decade. Davis had been acting on major television programs, such as General Electric Theatre and Perry Mason, since the 1950s, but in the 1970s, she also began to make television movies on a regular basis, commencing with Madame Sin (1971).