Charade
Studio: Stanley Donen Films
Starring: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
Director: Stanley Donen
Writer: Peter Stone
Producer: Stanley Donen
Charade is a 1963 American romantic screwball comedy mystery film produced and directed by Stanley Donen, written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, and starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. The cast also features Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass and Jacques Marin. It spans three genres: suspense thriller, romance and comedy.
Trivia
- Stone then turned it into a novel, retitled Charade, which found a publisher and was serialized in Redbook magazine.
- The serial caught the attention of the same Hollywood companies that had passed on it earlier.
- The film rights were quickly sold to producer/director Stanley Donen.
Filming Locations
- Paris
- Studios de Boulogne
- About half the film was shot on location, with interiors being filmed at Studios de Boulogne.
- The scenes in which Grant and Hepburn first meet were shot in January 1963 in a ski resort in Megève, in the French Alps.
- Hepburn had just filmed Paris When It Sizzles the previous summer in a number of the same locations in Paris, but difficulties with the earlier production caused it to be released four months after Charade.
Previous Showings
13 Runs • 9 Festivals
32,679 tickets sold
All runs on record (13):
- October 3 - 6, 1992 · 2,823 ticketsw/ North by Northwest
- March 25 - 26, 1993 · 2,569 ticketsw/ Wait Until Dark
- February 11 - 16, 1995 · 3,496 ticketsw/ Breakfast at Tiffany's
- July 20 - 23, 1996 · 2,530 ticketsw/ North by Northwest
- August 7 - 10, 1999 · 3,905 ticketssummer99w/ Breakfast at Tiffany's
- September 7 - 8, 2000 · 1,528 ticketsSummer 2000w/ How to Steal a Million
- August 29 - September 3, 2002 · 3,632 ticketssummer02w/ Father Goose
- August 17 - 19, 2005 · 2,075 ticketsSummer 2005w/ Wait Until Dark
- June 14 - 17, 2008 · 3,094 ticketsSummer 2008 Bette Davis, James Stewart, silent films and more!w/ How to Steal a Million
- November 6 - 7, 2009 · 1,506 tickets20th Anniversary Festivalw/ Breakfast at Tiffany's
- May 16 - 17, 2018 · 682 ticketsHitchcock and Other Masters of Suspense plus, Frankenstein at 200w/ Arabesque
- August 19 - 20, 2023 · 2,291 ticketsSummer 2023: The Best of Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcockw/ North by Northwest
- May 16 - 18, 2025 · 2,548 ticketsAudrey Hepburnw/ Funny Face