I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

1h 1m
ComedyMusic
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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
Michael G. 'Sonny' McGann
Johnny Downs
Robert Lee 'Bob' Gunther
Peggy Moran
Linda Carroll
Warren Hymer
Big Foot Louie
Jessie Ralph
Mama McGann
Gertrude Michael
Magda Delys
John Sutton
Boston
Horace McMahon
Bugs
Dewey Robinson
Roundhouse
Murray Alper
Nails
Sunshine Sammy Morrison
Joe
Jeni Le Gon
Annie
Virginia Sale
Landlady (uncredited)

Crew

Albert S. Rogell
Director
Paul Gerard Smith
Adaptation
Arthur T. Horman
Screenplay
James Edward Grant
Story

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