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My Weakness (film)

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My Weakness
Directed byDavid Butler
Written byBuddy G. DeSylva
Bert Hanlon
David Butler
Ben Ryan
Produced byBuddy G. DeSylva
StarringLilian Harvey
Lew Ayres
Charles Butterworth
Harry Langdon
CinematographyArthur C. Miller
Edited byIrene Morra
Music byArthur Lange
Cyril J. Mockridge
Production
company
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • September 22, 1933 (1933-09-22)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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]

Plot

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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.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Solomon, p. 175
  2. ^ Vieira, Mark A., Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood, Abrams, 1999, pg. 133

Bibliography

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  • Solomon, Aubrey. The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography. McFarland, 2011.
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