Three Daring Daughters (UK title: The Birds and the Bees) is a 1948 American Technicolor musical film directed by Fred M. Wilcox and starring Jeanette MacDonald, Jane Powell and Edward Arnold.
The screenplay was written by Albert Mannheimer, Frederick Kohner, Sonya Levien and John Meehan.
During the choir's performance at the ceremony, Tess notices that her beautiful divorcée mother, Louise Rayton Morgan, isn't there.
Louise, an editor for Modern Design magazine, is in Dr. Cannon's office after fainting due to being overworked and stressed.
The girls then discuss whether they could bring their father back home and make their mom happy and healthy again.