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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940)
MELODEARS and MUSICAL MOBSTERS... in the fun frolic of the season!
Genre: Comedy, Music
Released: 1940-05-01
Runtime: 61 min.
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.
