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The Profumo affair was a major scandal in British politics during the early 1960s. John Profumo, the 46-year-old Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, had an extramarital affair with the 19-year-old model Christine Keeler beginning in 1961. Profumo denied the affair in a statement to the House of Commons in 1963; weeks later, a police investigation proved that he had lied. The scandal severely damaged the credibility of Macmillan's government, and Macmillan resigned as Prime Minister in October 1963, citing ill health. The fallout contributed to the Conservative government's defeat by the Labour Party in the 1964 general election.
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- ↑ Movie Westerns: Hollywood Films the Wild, Wild West by John Howard Reid Page 126 Robbery Under Arms
- ↑ LETTERBOXD Next to No Time
- ↑ The Baltimore Afro-American 14 November 1959 Page 19 AS SAPPHIRE
- ↑ The Baltimore Afro-American 21 November 1959 Page 26 SAPPHIRE IS a mystery girl
- ↑ The BFI Companion to Crime By Phil Hardy Page 294 Le Samouraï – Scandal, Sapphire
- ↑ Farmer, Richard (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 .
- ↑ Filmkritik, Volume 8 – Filmkritiker Kooperative, 1964 Page 222
- ↑ Scandinavian Blue By Jack Stevenson Page 49
- ↑ The Age 3 April 1963 Page 3 Australians Can See Keeler Film
- ↑ International Film Guide, 1990 Page 95
- ↑ 39ª MOSTRA Fogo e Paixão, Fogo e Paixão
- ↑ Imdb Fogo e Paixão (1988)