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
Christine Keeler a couple, but according to her, it was a platonic, non-sexual relationship. In July 1961, Ward introduced Keeler to John Profumo, 5th Baron Profumo, the Secretary of State for War, at a pool party at Cliveden, the Buckinghamshire mansion owned by Lord Astor. Profumo began a brief affair with Keeler, which ended after he was warned by the security services of the possible dangers of mixing with the Ward circle. Among Ward's other friends, whom Profumo briefly met, was the Russian naval attaché and GRU officer, Yevgeny Ivanov. According to Keeler, she and Ivanov enjoyed a short sexual relationship. After