Charade


09:28 am - 11:52 am, Friday, December 19 on wedotv Movies UK (98)

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A distraught widow learns her husband was murdered for his part in a $250,000 robbery. The haul has gone missing, and his former accomplices are soon on her tail in the hunt for the missing proceeds. Not knowing where to turn, she takes up the offer of help from a dashing stranger, but is uncertain whether she can trust him. Romantic thriller, with Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Walter Matthau and James Coburn


1963
Movie/Drama Police/Crime Drama Romance Thriller

Cast & Crew

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Audrey Hepburn (Actor) .. Reggie Lampert
Cary Grant (Actor) .. Peter Joshua
Walter Matthau (Actor) .. Hamilton Bartholomew
James Coburn (Actor) .. Tex Panthollow
George Kennedy (Actor) .. Herman Scobie
Ned Glass (Actor) .. Leopold Gideon
Thomas Chelimsky (Actor) .. Jean-Louis Gaudet
Jacques Marin (Actor) .. Insp Edouard Grandpierre
Stanley Donen (Director)

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Audrey Hepburn (Actor) .. Reggie Lampert
Born: May 04, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium
Best Known For: Being a Hollywood actress and a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Early-life: Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium to a British father, Joseph, and an Austrian mother, Anna. Audrey spent her childhood between Belgium, England and the Netherlands. She moved to London in 1948 to study ballet and perform as a chorus girl in West End musicals. In the early 1950s, she had small parts in a number of British films, including The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), and played the lead role in the original 1951 Broadway production of Gigi. Audrey's first starring role in a Hollyood film was opposite Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday (1953), for which she won an Academy Award. The same year, she won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for Ondine.
Career: Hepburn went on to star in a number of successful films, including Funny Face (1957), Love in the Afternoon (1957), The Children's Hour (1961), Charade (1963) and My Fair Lady (1964). She picked up Academy Award nominations for her roles in Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and Wait Until Dark (1967). Hepburn acted only occasionally after 1967 after deciding to devote more time to her family. Her last film role was a cameo appearance in Steven Spielberg's Always (1988). In 1989, she was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and spent the reminder of her life helping children in poor nations. In November 1992, Hepburn was diagnosed with a rare form of abdominal cancer. She died at her home in Switzerland on January 20, 1993. She was 63. She was posthumously awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 1993 Academy Awards.
Quote: "The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters."
Trivia: Hepburn was fluent in English, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and German. She was very self-conscious about her size-10 feet.
Cary Grant (Actor) .. Peter Joshua
Born: January 18, 1904 in Bristol
Best Known For: Being a Hollywood legend.
Early-life: Born Archibald Alexander Leach in Bristol on January 18, 1904, the only surviving child of Elsie and Elias. At the age of nine, Cary was told that his mother had gone on a long holiday and later informed she was dead. In reality, she had been placed in a mental institution because she suffered from clinical depression. Cary was 31 when his father confessed that his mother was still alive. After joining the Bob Pender Stage Troupe, Cary performed as a stilt walker and travelled with the group to the United States. This was in 1920 when Cary was 16. Two years later, when the troupe returned to Britain, Cary decided to stay in America. He became an American citizen in 1942, at which time he changed his name to Cary Grant.
Career: After appearing in several musicals on Broadway under the name Archie Leach, Grant moved to Hollywood in 1931. He signed up with Paramount Pictures and was given the stage name Cary Grant. He starred opposite Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus (1932) and appeared in two of Mae West's most successful films, She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel (both 1933). Grant moved to Columbia Pictures in 1936. The Awful Truth (1937) established Grant's screen persona as a light comedy leading man. He went on to star in a number of romantic comedies, including Holiday (1938), Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), His Girl Friday (1940 and My Favourite Wife (1940). In 1941 he starred in Suspicion, the first of four collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock - the others being Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). In the mid-1950s, he formed his own production company, Granart Productions. In 1963, he appeared alongside Audrey Hepburn in Charade. He retired from acting after making the film Walk, Don't Run (1966). In the late 1960s, he joined the board of directors at Faberge and later joined the boards of other companies, including MGM. In the last few years of his life, he toured in a one-man show, A Conversation with Cary Grant. On the afternoon of November 29, 1986, he sustained a cerebral haemorrhage. He died later that same day, at the age of 82.
Quote: "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant - even I want to be Cary Grant."
Trivia: Grant was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Penny Serenade (1941) and None But the Lonely Heart (1944). He received a special Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1970.
Walter Matthau (Actor) .. Hamilton Bartholomew
James Coburn (Actor) .. Tex Panthollow
Born: August 31, 1928 in Laurel, Nebraska
Best Known For: A string of movie roles.
Early-life: James Harrison Coburn III was born in Laurel, Nebraska, on August 31, 1928 to Mylet Johnson and James Coburn Jr. He was raised in Compton, California. After studying drama at Los Angeles City College, he made his stage debut at the La Jolla Playhouse in Herman Melville's Billy Budd. He made his film debut in the western Ride Lonesome (1959).
Career: Coburn raised his profile following appearances in The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963), Charade (1963), The Americanisation of Emily, and Major Dundee (1965). His other film credits include A Fistful of Dynamite (1972), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) and Cross of Iron (1977). Rheumatoid arthritis limited his output in the 1980s but he enjoyed a career resurgence in the 1990s with supporting roles in the likes of Young Guns II (1990), Hudson Hawk (1991), Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), Maverick (1994), Eraser (1996), The Nutty Professor (1996), and Affliction (1997), for which he won an Academy Award. He died of a heart attack on November 18, 2002, at the age of 74.
Quote: "The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life."
Trivia: Coburn loved fast cars. He voiced the character Henry J Waternoose in Monsters, Inc (2001).
George Kennedy (Actor) .. Herman Scobie
Ned Glass (Actor) .. Leopold Gideon
Thomas Chelimsky (Actor) .. Jean-Louis Gaudet
Jacques Marin (Actor) .. Insp Edouard Grandpierre
Stanley Donen (Director)

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