"Can't Smile Without You" is a song written by Christian Arnold, David Martin and Geoff Morrow, and recorded by various artists including Barry Manilow and the Carpenters.

[4] Record World said that it "moves at a moderate, catchy tempo with a lost-love lyric of the sort that has swelled the artist's audience.

On behalf of the songwriters, publishing company Dick James Music sued George Michael for plagiarism in the mid-1980s claiming that the 1984 Wham!

The case was reportedly dismissed when a musicologist presented 60-odd songs from the past century that had a comparable chord sequence and melody.

[18] In the film Unconditional Love (2002), the "Crossbow Killer" whistles the opening of "Can't Smile Without You," which is followed by Kathy Bates, Rupert Everett, Meredith Eaton, and Jonathan Pryce singing the song.