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Jessica is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jean Negulesco released in USA on 19 april 1962 with Maurice Chevalier
Jessica (1962)
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Add to a movie listJessica is a 1962 film directed by Jean Negulesco. It stars Maurice Chevalier and Angie Dickinson.
Synopsis
When her husband dies in Sicily while on their honeymoon, Jessica, a nurse, decides to remain there rather than return home. She decides to become a midwife in the village of Forza d'Agro.Actors
Maurice Chevalier
(Father Antonio)
Angie Dickinson
(Jessica Brown Visconti)
Noël-Noël
(Old Crupi)
Agnes Moorehead
(Maria Lombardo)
Sylva Koscina
(Nunzia Tuffi)
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