Movie
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Released: May 1, 1940 (1940)
Runtime: 61 minutes
Genres: Comedy, Music
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.
Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)
- Jessie Ralph as Mama McGann
Age at release: 75
- Dewey Robinson as Roundhouse
Age at release: 41
- Murray Alper as Nails
Age at release: 36
- Warren Hymer as Big Foot Louie
Age at release: 34
- Horace McMahon as Bugs
Age at release: 33
- John Sutton as Boston
Age at release: 31
- Broderick Crawford as Michael G. 'Sonny' McGann
Age at release: 28
- Gertrude Michael as Magda Delys
Age at release: 28
- Johnny Downs as Robert Lee 'Bob' Gunther
Age at release: 26
- Peggy Moran as Linda Carroll
Age at release: 21
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- Virginia Sale as Landlady (uncredited)
Age at release: 40
- Sunshine Sammy Morrison as Joe
Age at release: 27
- Jeni Le Gon as Annie
Age at release: 23