I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby(1940)

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

60

1h 1m

  • Comedy,
  • Music

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.

Cast

  • Broderick Crawford

    Broderick Crawford

    Michael G. 'Sonny' McGann

  • Johnny Downs

    Johnny Downs

    Robert Lee 'Bob' Gunther

  • Peggy Moran

    Peggy Moran

    Linda Carroll

  • Warren Hymer

    Warren Hymer

    Big Foot Louie

  • Jessie Ralph

    Jessie Ralph

    Mama McGann

  • Gertrude Michael

    Gertrude Michael

    Magda Delys

  • John Sutton

    John Sutton

    Boston

  • Horace McMahon

    Horace McMahon

    Bugs

  • Dewey Robinson

    Dewey Robinson

    Roundhouse

  • Murray Alper

    Murray Alper

    Nails

  • Sunshine Sammy Morrison

    Sunshine Sammy Morrison

    Joe

  • Jeni Le Gon

    Jeni Le Gon

    Annie

  • Virginia Sale

    Virginia Sale

    Landlady (uncredited)

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    Status

    Released (May 1, 1940)

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