My Weakness (1933)
1h 13m
Running Time
September 22, 1933Release Date
My Weakness (1933)
1h 13m
Running Time
September 22, 1933Release Date
Plot.
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.
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Cast & Crew.
Lilian Harvey
Looloo Blake
Lew Ayres
Ronnie Gregory
Charles Butterworth
Gerald Gregory
Harry Langdon
Dan Cupid
Sid Silvers
Maxie
David Butler
Director
Irene Bentley
Jane Holman
Buddy G. DeSylva
Writer
Henry Travers
Ellery Gregory
Bert Hanlon
Writer
Adrian Rosley
Baptiste
Arthur C. Miller
Cinematographer
Mary Howard
Diana Griffith
Irene Ware
Eve Millstead
Barbara Weeks
Lois Crowley
Susan Fleming
Jacqueline Wood
Marcelle Edwards
Marion
Marjorie King
Lillian
Jean Allen
Consuello
Gladys Blake
Mitzi
Dixie Francis
Dixie
Cyril J. Mockridge
Music
Joe Strassner
Costume Design
Ad Schaumer
Assistant Director
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Wiki.
My Weakness is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film directed by David Butler and starring Lilian Harvey, Lew Ayres and Charles Butterworth. 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.