I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

"MELODEARS and MUSICAL MOBSTERS... in the fun frolic of the season!"
  • 1940
  • 1 hr 1 min
  •  6  (1)
  •   Released

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.

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Description
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.
  • Release Date
    1940
  • Runtime
    1 hr 1 min
  • Language
    en
  • Rating
    6  (1)