movie backdrop
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew
  • Recommendations

Status

Released

Release Date

May 1, 1940

Runtime

1h 1m

Genres

Comedy, Music

User Score

60%

Original Title

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

Director

Albert S. Rogell

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.