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Apr 28, 1989 · Scandal: Directed by Michael Caton-Jones. With John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen. Based on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.
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Scandalmongering osteopath Stephen Ward spots Christine Keeler dancing burlesque at Murray's Cabaret Club in Soho, London (in the film, the Café de Paris). Keeler is played by Joanne Whalley, who looks astonishingly like the real thing. The film's producers have done an excellent job of casting actors who look right – including John Hurt as Ward, J...
The film follows Keeler's own account of her relationship with Ward. "I loved him, but we were never lovers," she said. But it's much more forgiving of his conduct than she is, for she went on: "He would have killed me as easily as light my cigarette. He stitched me up, stitch after very neat stitch. He was bad and ruthless." In Scandal, he's naugh...
Ward invites Keeler to a party at Lord and Lady Astor's country pile, Cliveden. The entertainment involves Keeler getting naked, and Ward and Ivanov chasing her round a swimming pool. Fatefully, there's another party going on at Cliveden that night: the Astors are hosting a fancy reception for Ayub Khan, the president of Pakistan. Profumo and Astor...
Scandal leaves out much of the contemporary politics to focus on Keeler and Ward. For audiences unfamiliar with the story, it may not be clear why who all these people slept with was such a big deal. In real life, the hanky-panky was happening at the same time as the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Berlin crisis, and the Cuban missile crisis – the high w...
Scandal is a well-researched and watchable tale of Keeler and Ward. Beyond that, it's not a huge surprise that a commercial film about the Profumo Affair is less interested in revealing the political complexities than it is in revealing bosoms.
Scandal. (1989 film) Scandal is a 1989 British historical drama film, directed by Michael Caton-Jones. It is 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.
- $7 million
- Carl Davis
- 3 March 1989
- Stephen Woolley
Joanne Whalley's husband at the time, Val Kilmer objected to his wife doing the nude scene. Harvey Weinstein hired a body double for the scene. When Joanne arrived on-set, she wasn't happy with how the double looked. So Joanne ended up doing the nude scene herself.
Nov 9, 2023 · Full Name. Joanne Whalley. Personal Life. Married to Val Kilmer in 1988, with whom she has two children – a daughter, Mercedes (born: 29 October 1991) and a son, Jack (born: 6 June 1995). They separated in the mid-1990s and Whalley filed for divorce on 21 July 1995, citing irreconcilable differences. Career.
