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

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

Cast

Broderick Crawford, Johnny Downs, Peggy Moran, Warren Hymer, Jessie Ralph

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.