I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940)
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad. It is Crawford's hope that the song will reach out and touch his long-lost childhood sweetheart. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby was based on James Edward Grant's short story Trouble in B Flat; echoes of the basic premise later resurfaced in the 1957 "A" picture The Girl Can't Help It.
GENRES:
Comedy • Music
DIRECTION:
Albert S. Rogell
Same Director or Cast
Cast & Characters
| Broderick Crawford | Michael G. 'Sonny' McGann |
| Johnny Downs | Robert Lee 'Bob' Gunther |
| Peggy Moran | Linda Carroll |
| Warren Hymer | Big Foot Louie |
| Jessie Ralph | Mama McGann |
| Gertrude Michael | Magda Delys |
| John Sutton | Boston |
| Horace McMahon | Bugs |
| Dewey Robinson | Roundhouse |
| Murray Alper | Nails |
| Sunshine Sammy Morrison | Joe |
| Jeni Le Gon | Annie |