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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

★ 7.0/10•1940•1h 1m•NR•Comedy•Music

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

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.

Albert S. Rogell · Director

Arthur T. Horman · Screenplay

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 1m
LanguageEN
Release DateMay 1, 1940

Actors

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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