I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

May 1, 1940

1h 1m

★ 6.0

MELODEARS and MUSICAL MOBSTERS... in the fun frolic of the season!

Overview

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

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Michael G. 'Sonny' McGann

Broderick Crawford

Robert Lee 'Bob' Gunther

Johnny Downs

Linda Carroll

Peggy Moran

Big Foot Louie

Warren Hymer

Mama McGann

Jessie Ralph

Magda Delys

Gertrude Michael

Boston

John Sutton

Bugs

Horace McMahon

Roundhouse

Dewey Robinson

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Murray Alper

Joe

Sunshine Sammy Morrison

Annie

Jeni Le Gon

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