I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

Name: I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Genre: Comedy, Music
Released: 1940-05-01
Duration: 1 h 1 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Broderick Crawford, Johnny Downs, Peggy Moran, Warren Hymer, Jessie Ralph

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

1940

1h 1m

Comedy Music

Director: Albert S. Rogell

Writers: Arthur T. Horman, James Edward Grant

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.