I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940)
MELODEARS and MUSICAL MOBSTERS... in the fun frolic of the season!
61 min
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.
- Release date
- May 1, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Broderick Crawford as Michael G. 'Sonny' McGann
- Jessie Ralph as Mama McGann
- Johnny Downs as Robert Lee 'Bob' Gunther
- Peggy Moran as Linda Carroll
- Gertrude Michael as Magda Delys
- Warren Hymer as Big Foot Louie
- John Sutton as Boston
- Horace McMahon as Bugs
- Dewey Robinson as Roundhouse
- Murray Alper as Nails
Crew
- Albert S. Rogell · Director
- James Edward Grant · Writer
- Arthur T. Horman · Writer
- Paul Gerard Smith · Writer
- Elwood Bredell · Cinematographer
- Frank Gross · Editor