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The Christine Keeler Story (also known as The Keeler Affair, The Christine Keeler Affair, Ich, Christine Keeler and Scandal '64) is a 1963 Danish film directed and written by Robert Spafford and starring Yvonne Buckingham, John Drew Barrymore and Alicia Brandet. The film dramatises the Profumo affair. [1] [2]
Yvonne Buckingham portrayed Keeler in a 1963 film variously titled The Christine Keeler Story, The Keeler Affair, and The Christine Keeler Affair; [30] Keeler herself introduced the film in its opening sequence and read the cast list in voiceover at the end. [31] In the 1989 film about the Profumo affair, Scandal, actress Joanne Whalley ...
The Profumo affair was a major scandal in British politics during the early 1960s. John Profumo, the 46-year-old Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, had an extramarital affair with the 19-year-old model Christine Keeler beginning in 1961.
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.
The press and public remained largely ignorant of the Keeler-Profumo liaison until early in 1963, when Keeler became a focus of newspaper attention as the "missing witness" in a case involving one of her former lovers, Johnny Edgecombe. At that point Keeler began talking indiscriminately and attempted to sell her story to newspapers. [41]
John Dennis Profumo CBE (/ p r ə ˈ f juː m oʊ / prə-FEW-moh; 30 January 1915 – 9 March 2006) was a British politician whose career ended in 1963 after a sexual relationship with the 19-year-old model Christine Keeler in 1961.
McMafia's James Norton and The Crown's Ben Miles are set to star in BBC One drama The Trial of Christine Keeler. Kingsman: The Secret Service star Sophie Cookson plays Keeler, the 19-year old who ...
America America (1963) – adventure drama film inspired by the life of Elia Kazan's uncle [104] The Christine Keeler Story (1963) – biographical drama film about the Profumo affair [105] Cleopatra (1963) – epic historical drama film chronicling the struggles of Cleopatra, the young queen of Egypt, to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome [106]