The Christine Keeler Story
The Christine Keeler Story, also known as The Keeler Affair and The Christine Keeler Affair, is a 1963 film about the Profumo affair.[1]
Cast[]
- Yvonne Buckingham as Christine Keeler
- John Drew Barrymore as Dr. Stephen Ward
- Alicia Brandet as Mandy Rice-Davies
- Mel Welles as Yevgeni Ivanovich
- Peter Prowse as Domaren
- Mimi Heinrich as Marianne
- Christine Keeler as Herself
- Mandy Rice-Davies as Herself
Production[]
The film was shot in Denmark over six weeks.[2]
Photo[]
In order to promote the film, photographer Lewis Morley took a photo of Keeler sitting on a chair in a straddling position, with implied nudity. The photo was taken on the first floor of Peter Cook's Establishment Club. Though the film was never released, the photo was published in the Sunday Mirror, and has since become very famous.[3]
Release[]
The film was twice rejected by the British Board of Film Censors (BBFC) in 1963 and 1969, and the second time it was also rejected by the Greater London Council. It was never given a release in the UK.[2] It was banned New Zealand and shown in Australia only after being heavily edited. These factors, combined with the BBFC rejection, substantially limited its exposure and profitability.[2]
The Blackpool Tribune, reviewing the film in Boston, called it "a filmic equivalent to a sex comic."[4]
In 1971 the film was screened in London at the New Cinema Club by Derek Hill as an act of defiance against the censor. Derek Malcolm of The Guardian said "it was scarcely worth seeing even as a curiosity, a fact that Mr Hill openly admits".[5]
References[]
- ^ "The Keeler Affair (1963)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ a b c Farmer, Richard (3 July 2017). "The Profumo affair in popular culture: The Keeler Affair (1963) and 'the commercial exploitation of a public scandal'". Contemporary British History. 31 (3): 452–470. doi:10.1080/13619462.2016.1261698.
- ^ "Christine Keeler Photograph: A Modern Icon". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- ^ "The story of my life" Haworth, J D S. Tribune; Blackpool Vol. 28, Iss. 34, (Aug 21, 1964): 15.
- ^ Come back, Stan and Ollie: DEREK MALCOM on films not at all for maiden aunts The Guardian 4 Feb 1971: 8.
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