The Keeler Affair (1963)
The Scandal of the Century!
A teenage prostitute in England gets involved with high-level politicians and becomes enmeshed in a sex-and-spy scandal.
- Date of release
- 1963-11-09
- TMDB
- 4.2 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Drama, Documentary
- Director
- Robert Spafford
Casting
- Christine Keeler
- Yvonne Buckingham — Christine Keeler
- John Drew Barrymore — Stephen Ward
- Alicia Brandet — Mandy Rice-Davies
- Mel Welles — Yevgeni Ivanovich
- Mimi Heinrich — Marianne
- Mandy Rice-Davies
- Peter Prowse — The judge
Interesting facts
The Christine Keeler Story 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.
Production
The film was shot in Denmark over six weeks.
To promote the film, photographer Lewis Morley photographed Keeler sitting on a chair on the first floor of Peter Cook's Establishment Club, with implied nudity. Though the film was never released in the UK, the photo was published in the Sunday Mirror and has since become well-known.
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