My Weakness | |
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Directed by | David Butler |
Written by | Buddy G. DeSylva Bert Hanlon David Butler |
Produced by | Buddy G. DeSylva |
Starring | Lilian Harvey Lew Ayres Charles Butterworth Harry Langdon |
Cinematography | Arthur C. Miller |
Edited by | Irene Morra |
Music by | Arthur Lange Cyril J. Mockridge |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 73 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
My Weakness is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film directed by David Butler and starring Lilian Harvey, Lew Ayres and Charles Butterworth.[1] It was the second of four films made by the British-German actress Harvey in Hollywood, who had emerged as major star during Weimar Germany.
It both was and wasn't the first mainstream Hollywood film to use the word "gay" as a descriptor of homosexuality. In one scene, Charles Butterworth and Sid Silvers commiserate over their miserable, hopeless shared love for Lilian Harvey, until Butterworth is struck by a solution: "Let's be gay!" However, the Studio Relations Committee censors decreed that the line had to be muffled.[2]
A wealthy young man bets that he can turn a cleaning woman into a sophisticated lady and trick three men into wanting to marry her.