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

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.

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Cast

	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

Storyline

Tagline:	MELODEARS and MUSICAL MOBSTERS... in the fun frolic of the season!
Certification:	NR

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Genres: Comedy, Music

Language: English

Release Date: 01 May 1940

Country: US

Runtime: 61m

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Company: Universal Pictures

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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)