I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940)
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.
Director:
Albert S. Rogell
Writer:
Arthur T. Horman
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Broderick Crawford as Michael G. 'Sonny' McGann |
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Johnny Downs as Robert Lee 'Bob' Gunther |
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Peggy Moran as Linda Carroll |
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Warren Hymer as Big Foot Louie |
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Jessie Ralph as Mama McGann |
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Gertrude Michael as Magda Delys |
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John Sutton as Boston |
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Horace McMahon as Bugs |
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Dewey Robinson as Roundhouse |
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Murray Alper as Nails |
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Sunshine Sammy Morrison as Joe |
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Jeni Le Gon as Annie |
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Virginia Sale as Landlady (uncredited) |
| Writing | Paul Gerard Smith | Adaptation |
| Writing | Arthur T. Horman | Screenplay |
| Directing | Albert S. Rogell | Director |
| Writing | James Edward Grant | Story |
