My Weakness (film)
My Weakness | |
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Directed by | David Butler |
Written by | Buddy G. DeSylva 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 | Fox Film Corporation |
Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
Release date | September 22, 1933 |
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]
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
- as Baptiste
- Mary Howard as Diana Griffith
- Irene Ware as Eve Millstead
- Barbara Weeks as Lois Crowley
- Susan Fleming as Jacqueline Wood
- as Marion
- as Lillian
- as Consuello
- Gladys Blake as Mitzi
- as Dixie
References[]
Bibliography[]
- Solomon, Aubrey. The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography. McFarland, 2011.
External links[]
- My Weakness at IMDb
Categories:
- English-language films
- 1933 films
- American films
- American musical films
- 1933 musical films
- 1930s English-language films
- Films directed by David Butler
- Fox Film films
- American black-and-white films
- Films scored by Arthur Lange
- Films scored by Cyril J. Mockridge
- Musical film stubs