"Charade" is a Parisian waltz with music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Mercer performed in the 1963 film of the same name starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.
There is a scene in the movie where Audrey returns from a happy winter holiday to her Paris flat to find it stripped of everything of value.
[citation needed] Henry Mancini's version reached #15 on the adult contemporary chart and #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963.
[citation needed] Though the Mancini-Mercer team lost the Oscar that year, Johnny Mercer said it was his favourite Mancini melody.
The 1965 Bollywood film Gumnaam has a recurring song that appropriates the melody of “Charade,” taunting the characters as they are killed one by one.