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.

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