Cultural Associations
Further information: Profumo affair#The Profumo Affair in film and theatre, Profumo affair#Cultural references to the scandal, and Profumo affair#The Profumo Affair in popular musicIn the 1989 film about the Profumo Affair entitled Scandal, actress Joanne Whalley portrayed Keeler.
Keeler is also the subject of songs by Dusty Springfield and the Pet Shop Boys called "Nothing Has Been Proved", Phil Ochs, the Glaxo Babies, the Senseless things, Kamphundar Överallt and Roland Alphonso entitled "Christine Keeler", and her name appears in the Porcupine Tree song "Piano Lessons", in Street Songs by Hamish Imlach and in "Post World War II Blues" by Al Stewart. She is mentioned in The Kinks song "Where are they now?", from the album Preservation Act 1.
In Harry Harrison's 1965 novel Bill, the Galactic Hero, the story's hero, Bill, serves on the warship Christine Keeler.
A car she formerly owned is an exhibit at the Caister Castle & Car Collection, Great Yarmouth.
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