Charade is a 1963 American romantic screwball comedy[ mystery film produced and directed by Stanley Donen, and written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm. The stars are Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. The cast also includes Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass, and Jacques Marin. The movie spans three genres, suspense thriller, romance, and comedy. When screenwriters Peter Stone and Marc Behm submitted their script "The Unsuspecting Wife" around Hollywood, they were unable to sell it. 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. Stone then wrote the final shooting script, tailored to Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, with Behm receiving story co-credit. At the end of the film, Hepburn lists Grant's aliases, co...