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'The Christine Keeler Story', also known as 'The Keeler Affair' and 'The Christine Keeler Affair', is a 1963 film about the Profumo affair.

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.

Photo



To promote the film, photographer Lewis Morley took a photo of Keeler sitting on a chair on the first floor of Peter Cook's Establishment Club, with implied nudity. Though the film was never released, the photo was published in the 'Sunday Mirror' and has since become very famous.

Release



The film was twice rejected by the British Board of Film Censors (BBFC) in 1963 and 1969, and the second time was also rejected by the Greater London Council. It was never released in the UK, banned in New Zealand, and shown in Australia only after being edited. These factors, combined with the BBFC rejection, substantially limited its exposure and profitability.

The 'Blackpool Tribune', reviewing the film in Boston, called it "a filmic equivalent to a sex comic.""The story of my life" Haworth, J D S. Tribune; Blackpool Vol. 28, Iss. 34, (Aug 21, 1964): 15.

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".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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