My Weakness (film)

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.

Plot
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