Discover
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.
Original Release
09/22/1933
US Release
09/22/1933
Cast
Name | Character |
---|
Lilian Harvey | Looloo Blake |
Lew Ayres | Ronnie Gregory |
Charles Butterworth | Gerald Gregory |
Harry Langdon | Dan Cupid |
Sid Silvers | Maxie |
Irene Bentley | Jane Holman |
Henry Travers | Ellery Gregory |
Adrian Rosley | Baptiste |
Mary Howard | Diana Griffith |
Irene Ware | Eve Millstead |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
---|
Lilian Harvey | Looloo Blake |
Lew Ayres | Ronnie Gregory |
Charles Butterworth | Gerald Gregory |
Harry Langdon | Dan Cupid |
Sid Silvers | Maxie |
Irene Bentley | Jane Holman |
Henry Travers | Ellery Gregory |
Adrian Rosley | Baptiste |
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 |
Bill Elliott | Spectator |
Patricia Farr | Bit Part |
Genevieve Phillips | Dancer |
Producers
Name | Role |
---|
Buddy G. DeSylva | Producer |