Scandal (1989 film) Scandal (1989 film) Scandal is a 1989 British drama film, a fictionalised account of the Profumo affair that rocked the government of British prime minister Harold Macmillan. It stars Joanne Whalley as Christine Keeler and John Hurt as Stephen Ward, personalities at the heart of the affair. The film was screened in competition at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. The theme song "Nothing Has Been Proved" was written and produced by Pet Shop Boys and sung by Dusty Springfield. An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as
The Christine Keeler Story filmic equivalent to a sex comic." 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". The Christine Keeler Story The Christine Keeler Story is a 1963 film about the Profumo Affair. The film was also known as The Keeler Affair. The film was shot in Denmark over six weeks. Keeler took a photo to promote the film. It was taken by Lewis Morley on