Charade is a 1963 American romantic mystery comedy movie directed by Stanley Donen and was based on the 1961 short story by Peter Stone and Marc Behm. It stars Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Walter Matthau and was distributed by Universal Pictures and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1964. It was remade as "The Truth About Charlie" in 2002.