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

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

Comedy Music

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

Release Date: 1940, May 1
Directors: Albert S. Rogell
Countries: United States of America
Production: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures
Cast: Dewey Robinson, John Sutton, Murray Alper, Gertrude Michael, Johnny Downs, Jeni Le Gon, Sunshine Sammy Morrison, Warren Hymer, Broderick Crawford, Virginia Sale, Horace McMahon, Peggy Moran

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.

Keywords:

musical public enemy hit parade