Charade filming locations
Film locations: France
Charade filming location: Hepburn and Grant’s Latin Quarter hotel: Hotel St Jacques, rue des Ecoles, Paris
Stanley Donen’s lightweight, romantic thriller, of the kind they can’t seem to make anymore, is set in Paris, where ‘Reggie’ Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) discovers there was far more to her mysterious late husband than she realised, and even more to the enigmatic Peter Joshua (Cary Grant).
Charade filming location: the Punch and Judy show: Vrai Guignolet, Jardin des Champs Élysées, Paris.
Hepburn and Grant meet up at the marionette show, the Theatre Vrai Guignolet, in the Jardins des Champs Élysées, Rond Point des Champs Élysées, at the junction of avenue Matignon and avenue Gabriel. Amazingly, the show is still going, with afternoon performances on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays (Métro: Franklin D Roosevelt or Champs-Élysées Clémenceau).
The identity of ‘Peter Joshua’ is called into question as Hepburn meets up with CIA agent Bartholomew (Walter Matthau) at the old vegetable market at Les Halles – like London’s Covent Garden, the market has long since moved to a modern new facility outside the city centre – though the Église St Eustache remains.
Suspicious, Reggie tails Peter Joshua – or whoever he is – to the American Express Office, 11 rue Scribe, near the Opera House, where he gets involved in a fight with the sinister Scobie (George Kennedy) on the roof.
Charade filming location: Hepburn and Grant speculate on the identity of the killer: Pont au Double, Paris
Strolling along the Left Bank of the Seine, in front of the Pont au Double, beneath the quai de Montebello,Hepburn and Grant speculate on the identity of the killer, and remark that this is where Gene Kelly danced in An American in Paris (actually, that film was made in the studio in Hollywood), hardly noticing Notre Dame looming above them.
The hotel in which the pair are staying s is the Hotel St Jacques, 35 rue des Ecoles, in the Latin Quarter (where Grant famously takes a shower in his suit). It’s a lot classier than it appears in the film – and it's nowhere near the St Jacques Métro station.
Charade filming location: Tex rushes to get the stamps: avenue Matignon at rue de Ponthieu, Paris
It’s back at the Jardin des Champs Élysées that Hepburn and Grant keep an appointment and realise the location of the vanished money – as does Tex (James Coburn), who leaps into a cab on avenue Matignon at rue de Ponthieu, closely followed by Grant.
Charade filming location: the confrontation in the colonnade: Jardin du Palais Royal, Paris
At night, the increasingly suspicious Hepburn is lured to the Colonnade in the Jardin du Palais Royal (Métro: Palais-Royale) for a confrontation with the the real Carson Dyle.
Charade filming location: the climax in the theatre: Comédie Français, 2 rue de Richelieu, Paris
The theatre in which the movie climaxes is the Comédie Français, 2 rue de Richelieu (metro: Palais-Royal), the state theater of France, established by Louis XIV in 1680.
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Charade, 1972
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Flights: Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
stay at the Hotel St Jacques, 35 rue des Ecoles (tel: 33 (01) 1.44.07.45.45)
Visit: Theatre Vrai Guignolet, Rond Point des Champs Elysées
Visit the Comédie Français, 2 rue de Richelieu (metro: Palais-Royal)
Trivia
Remade in 2002 by Jonathan Demme as The Truth About Charlie, with Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton.