My Weakness (1933)
- Directed by
- David Butler
- Genre
- musical film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 13m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A rich woman hires a man to teach her how to be less attractive so she can catch a specific suitor. But her plan goes awry when the teacher himself falls for her.
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What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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