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Jessica Claus is the version of Mrs. Claus who first appears in the Rankin/Bass special Santa Claus is Comin' to Town and later in the movie Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July.

Appearances in Christmas specials[]

Kris gives Jessica a doll

Kris wins Jessica's heart with a gift.

In Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, Jessica, voiced by Robie Lester, was the schoolteacher of Sombertown when Kris Kringle arrived to bring the children toys for the first time. She at first does not condone the actions of Kris, as he is breaking Burgermeister Meisterburger's law declaring that toys were illegal in Sombertown, which he had enacted after being injured by one. However, after Kris gives her a baby doll, Jessica begins to fall in love with him and also realizes how silly the Burgermeister's law is.

From then on, Jessica decides to help Kris and the Kringles get toys into the city and help craft plans, including hiding toys in the stockings and going through the chimney each time the Burgermeister enacts new laws to prohibit Kris from delivering toys to the children. She remains one of Kris' best allies in Sombertown and tells him how to bring toys to the children without being caught. Unfortunately, the Burgermeister arrests Kris after luring him into a trap along with his penguin, Topper, as well the other Kringles and Winter Warlock through Grimsley, leaving Jessica brokenhearted. She tries to intercede for them, only to be given her packing orders by the Burgermeister, jeered by the whole town. This convinces her to decide on breaking Kris and the others out of the dungeons. Eventually, she formulates a plan of escape by using some of Winter's Magic Feed Corn, which could allow reindeer to fly. Jessica feeds the corn to some of Kris' reindeer friends, who then fly Kris and his friends out of the prison. However, with the Kringles' home on the Mountain of the Whispering Wind destroyed by the Burgermeister's men, they are forced to go on the run to escape capture.

After going on the run to escape the Burgermeister, Jessica and Kris, the latter now taking on his actual name of Claus, marry under the very first Christmas tree. From there, they then head up to the North Pole to establish Santa's castle and workshop, and eventually learn of the Burgermeister's descendants dying off while Santa's legend went worldwide. Both of them agree to have Santa go out only on Christmas Eve. The special ends on Jessica giving Santa his hat before he emerges to make his annual delivery as Special Delivery Kluger arrives with the mail, joined by Winter, Topper, and several animals.

Kris and Jessica reminiscing

Jessica and her husband Kris years later, as seen in Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July.

In Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July, Darlene Conley provided Jessica's voice. When they learn that Frosty and his family are traveling with Rudolph and Milton to help Lilly Loraine's circus out of debt, Santa and Jessica prepare to come and pick them up to take back to the North Pole before the Fourth of July fireworks are finished, at which point Frosty and his family would be in danger of melting. Before heading out to the circus themselves, Jessica and Santa reminisce about how they first met, mentioning the doll he gave her, in keeping with the movie's tying together the continuity of the Rankin/Bass Christmas specials up to that point. Unfortunately, once they've set off, Winterbolt has his ice dragons conjure a storm that is so bad that Santa and Jessica are forced to travel on the ground. Eventually, the storm clears as a result of Winterbolt's demise, and the couple arrive just after Frosty's family is revived by Jack Frost.

Trivia[]

  • The version of Mrs. Claus in the movie Becoming Santa was also named Jessica.

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