1906 And Broadway Singer Jessica Harigen Analysis

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A poet falls for a singer who drowned a century ago and gets the opportunity to travel back in time to stop her untimely death.

BRIEF SYNOPSIS
It’s 1906 and Broadway singer, JESSICA HARDEN, fears she has ruined her chance to become a star after she declines the advances of JP MORGAN. But supported by SAM and LOUISA SPENCER she becomes the darling of the stage. When Sam is killed in a tragic train crash a distraught Jessica accidentally drowns in the sea. A statue dedicated to her brightens the town.
A century later, the statue of Jessica and her story fascinates budding poet GLENN. He would do anything to go back in time to meet her and save her from death. When men approach him from NASA they inform Glenn that they invented a time machine.

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