The Christine Keeler Story

The Christine Keeler Story is a 1963 film about the Profumo affair.[1]

The film was also known as The Keeler Affair and The Christine Keeler Affair.

Cast

Production

The film was shot in Denmark over six weeks.[2]

Photo

Keeler took a photo to promote the film. It was taken by Lewis Morley on the first floor of Peter Cook's Establishment Club, and consisted of Keeler sitting naked on a chair. The photo became very famous.[3]

Release

The film was twice rejected by British censors and was never given a release in the UK.[2]

The Blackpool Tribune, reviewing the film in Boston, called it "a filmic equivalent to a sex comic."[4]

In 1971 the film 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
  1. "The Keeler Affair (1963)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. Richard Farmer (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
  3. "Christine Keeler Photograph: A Modern Icon". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  4. “The story of my life” Haworth, J D S. Tribune; Blackpool Vol. 28, Iss. 34, (Aug 21, 1964): 15.
  5. 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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