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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

Comedy, Music

1h 1m

May 1, 1940 (85 years ago)

Overview

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.

ActorAge thenAge now
Broderick Crawford

Broderick Crawford

Michael G. 'Sonny' McGann

Birthday: December 9, 1911

28 April 26, 1986 (74)
Johnny Downs

Johnny Downs

Robert Lee 'Bob' Gunther

Birthday: October 10, 1913

26 June 6, 1994 (80)
Peggy Moran

Peggy Moran

Linda Carroll

Birthday: October 23, 1918

21 October 24, 2002 (84)
Warren Hymer

Warren Hymer

Big Foot Louie

Birthday: February 25, 1906

34 March 25, 1948 (42)
Jessie Ralph

Jessie Ralph

Mama McGann

Birthday: November 4, 1864

75 May 30, 1944 (79)
Gertrude Michael

Gertrude Michael

Magda Delys

Birthday: June 1, 1911

28 December 31, 1964 (53)
John Sutton

John Sutton

Boston

Birthday: October 23, 1908

31 July 11, 1963 (54)
Horace McMahon

Horace McMahon

Bugs

Birthday: May 17, 1906

33 August 17, 1971 (65)
Dewey Robinson

Dewey Robinson

Roundhouse

Birthday: August 16, 1898

41 December 11, 1950 (52)
Murray Alper

Murray Alper

Nails

Birthday: January 11, 1904

36 November 16, 1984 (80)