The Christine Keeler Affair
Cast & Crew
Robert Spafford
Yvonne Buckingham
John Drew Barrymore
Alicia Brandet
Mel Welles
Peter Prowse
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Synopsis
Prefaced by an interview with its subject, the film chronicles the rise of demimondaine Christine Keeler. Coming to London as a girl, Christine finds employment first as a photographer's model and then as a hostess. At the Murray Club she meets Mandy Rice-Davies, who introduces her to society osteopath Stephen Ward. Although Christine moves into Ward's apartment, she tires of their platonic relationship and leaves the osteopath briefly for West Indian musician Johnny Edgecomb. Following her return, Ward escorts her about town on a dog leash. At a wild swimming pool party she meets British Minister of War John Profumo and Soviet naval attaché Yevgeni Ivanov. Christine's liaisons with both are revealed when disgruntled former lover Edgecomb fires pistol shots through her apartment door, and Scotland Yard is summoned. The ensuing scandal forces Profumo's resignation and Ivanov's return to Russia. Stephen Ward commits suicide, and Christine is sent to prison.
Director
Robert Spafford
Cast
Yvonne Buckingham
John Drew Barrymore
Alicia Brandet
Mel Welles
Peter Prowse
Mimi Heinrich
Christine Keeler
Jimmy Moore
Gunnar Lemvigh
Carl Ottosen
Ole Ishøj
Bent Thalmay
Lise Henningsen
Anita Rieneck
Knud Hallest
Crew
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Notes
Filmed in Denmark. The film was banned in Great Britain. Sources conflict in music credit. Also known as The Keeler Affair. Advertised as Scandal '64.
