Three Daring Daughters (1948)

Director
Fred M. Wilcox

Main cast
Jeanette MacDonald; José Iturbi; Jane Powell; Edward Arnold; Elinor Donahue

Genres
Music, Romance

Description
Three young girls try to help their widowed mother find the right husband.


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