I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

The story

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 & crew

Broderick CrawfordMichael G. 'Sonny' McGann

Johnny DownsRobert Lee 'Bob' Gunther

Peggy MoranLinda Carroll

Warren HymerBig Foot Louie

Jessie RalphMama McGann

Gertrude MichaelMagda Delys

John SuttonBoston

Horace McMahonBugs

Dewey RobinsonRoundhouse

Murray AlperNails

Sunshine Sammy MorrisonJoe

Jeni Le GonAnnie