CHARADE, 1963

CHARADE, 1963
Audrey Hepburn's working script for the 1963 Universal Pictures production Charade, dated 1 October 1962, the revised draft script comprising 137 loose pages of mimeographed typescript, with 32 pages printed on coloured paper representing revisions to the script with varying dates December 1962 - January 1963, the majority of the parts for the character of Regina "Reggie" Lampert marked in pencil or Hepburn's signature turquoise ink, with words underlined for emphasis, deletions to directions and approximately 13 pages annotated in Hepburn's hand with copied out lines and minor amendments to the dialogue, including:
- p. 50 verso when Reggie describes the character she believes to be Carson Dyle [Cary Grant] Hepburn adds the description ...going grey actually, you see he's not young but he's not too old either...
- Additionally five pages have been annotated verso with pencil diagrams in an unknown hand, possibly working out the positioning for the confrontation at the Colonnade in the Jardin du Palais Royal
11 ½ x 9 ¼ in. (29.2 x 23.5 cm.)

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