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'My Weakness' is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film directed by David Butler and starring Lilian Harvey, Lew Ayres and Charles Butterworth.Solomon, p. 175 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.Vieira, Mark A., Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood, Abrams, 1999, pg. 133

Synopsis



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



* Lilian Harvey as Looloo Blake

* Lew Ayres as Ronnie Gregory

* Charles Butterworth as Gerald Gregory

* Harry Langdon as Dan Cupid

* Sid Silvers as Maxie

* Irene Bentley as Jane Holman

* Henry Travers as Ellery Gregory

* Adrian Rosley as Baptiste

* Mary Howard as Diana Griffith

* Irene Ware as Eve Millstead

* Barbara Weeks as Lois Crowley

* Susan Fleming as Jacqueline Wood

* Marcelle Edwards as Marion

* Marjorie King as Lillian

* Jean Allen as Consuello

* Gladys Blake as Mitzi

* Dixie Francis as Dixie

References





Bibliography



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


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