I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940In 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.
Acted in
Broderick Crawford
as Michael G. 'Sonny' McGann
Johnny Downs
as Robert Lee 'Bob' Gunther
Peggy Moran
as Linda Carroll
Warren Hymer
as Big Foot Louie
Jessie Ralph
as Mama McGann
Gertrude Michael
as Magda Delys
John Sutton
as Boston
Horace McMahon
as Bugs
Dewey Robinson
as Roundhouse
Murray Alper
as Nails
Sunshine Sammy Morrison
as Joe
Jeni Le Gon
as Annie
Virginia Sale
as Landlady (uncredited)