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Marilyn Foreman (21 October 1944 – 18 December 2014), better known as Mandy Rice-Davies, was a Welsh model and showgirl best known for her association with Christine Keeler and her role in the Profumo affair, which discredited the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963.
Mandy Rice-Davies was a key figure in the Profumo affair, a notorious British political scandal of the 1960s. While giving evidence at the trial of Stephen Ward, ...
"Well he would, wouldn't he?", [n 1] occasionally referenced as Mandy Rice-Davies Applies (shortened to MRDA), is a British political phrase and aphorism that is commonly used as a retort to a self-interested denial. The Welsh model Mandy Rice-Davies used the phrase while giving evidence during the 1963 trial of the English osteopath Stephen Ward.
Ms Goodwin had earlier appeared to quote Mandy Rice-Davies’s infamous quote about the Profumo scandal when asked about Mr Korski’s denials. “He would say that, wouldn’t he?” she told the ...
Keeler left Ward after a few months to become the mistress of the property dealer Peter Rachman, [14] [n 2] and later shared lodgings with Mandy Rice-Davies, a fellow Murray's dancer two and a half years her junior. The two girls left Murray's and attempted without success to pursue careers as freelance models.
Neran Persaud as Emil Savundra, a notorious swindler treated by Ward and who met Keeler and Rice-Davies. Amanda Drew as Julie Ellen Payne, Keeler's mother. Tim McInnerny as Martin Redmayne MP, the Chief Whip of the ruling Conservative Party. Michael Maloney as Viscount Astor, with whom Rice-Davies claimed in court to have had sexual intercourse.
In 1988, Keeler was featured in Bryan Ferry's promotional video for the single "Kiss and Tell" (originally released on Ferry's seventh solo album, Bête Noire, in 1987) with Mandy Rice-Davies; this was meant to draw more attention to the song's theme. [26] In June 1988 she made an extended appearance on Channel 4 discussion programme After Dark ...
Stephen Ward is a musical with a book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. [1] The musical is based on the 1963 Profumo affair involving the War Minister John Profumo and the socialite Stephen Ward who introduced Profumo to his mistress Christine Keeler, who was also involved with a Russian spy.