My Weakness (film)

{{short description|1933 film by David Butler}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = My Weakness

| image = File:My Weakness (film).jpg

| caption =

| director = David Butler

| producer = Buddy G. DeSylva

| writer = Buddy G. DeSylva
Bert Hanlon
David Butler
Ben Ryan

| starring = Lilian Harvey
Lew Ayres
Charles Butterworth
Harry Langdon

| music = Arthur Lange
Cyril J. Mockridge

| cinematography = Arthur C. Miller

| editing = Irene Morra

| studio = Fox Film Corporation

| distributor = Fox Film Corporation

| released = {{Film date|1933|09|22}}

| runtime = 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.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