These were followed by a political potboiler, "A Fever in the Blood" (1961); a Belgian Congo-based melodrama, "The Sins of Rachel Cade" (1961), in which she played a missionary nurse tempted by lust; a scheming woman in "Rome Adventure" (1962), filmed in Italy, and the title role in Jean Negulesco's "Jessica" (1962) with Maurice Chevalier, in which she played a young midwife resented by the married women of the town, set in Sicily.