Despite mixed reviews,Swamp Waterended up being one of Fox’s highest-grossing films of the year.
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Baxter went on to win the film’s only Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.