Yvette

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## Creation & Appearances

### Created by

Jonathan Lynn
 John Landis

## Personal details

### Nationality

French (faux)
American

### Died

1954
Hill House

## Professional & social status

### Occupation

Housemaid
 Call girl

## Relationships

### Other affiliates

Miss Scarlet (employer)
 Colonel Mustard (former client)

## Source

**Yvette** is a supporting character and secondary antagonist from the 1985 film *Clue*. She is one of the servants of Hill House, where she works as the maid, and was once an informant for Mr. Boddy. Throughout the film, it is revealed Yvette has had previous connections to some of the guests.

## Profile

### Appearance

Yvette is an astonishingly beautiful, buxom woman with curly and lustrous blonde hair. Her attire is a long, glossy black satin dress that exposes her chest, cut high on the tight and low on the bosom, lined white-lace accents around it. Her stockings are black and she wears black bow heels.

Some of Yvette's accessories are a starched white white ruffled headpiece with a black ribbon, a starched white apron wrapped around her waist, a black choker around her neck. Additionally, she has a small watch near her chest.

### Personality

Yvette, at first glance, has refined mannerisms and appears innocent, but it's nothing more than a façade; as the night progresses, she is shown to be less innocent as she first appeared.

Before her death, Yvette reveals that she's not of any French descent. She speaks with an American accent, leaving those to question if she was using an accent to be deceptive or finding her more job opportunities, as French maids were seen as desirable to have back in the day. It is also possible the French act was part of her sex work, as a sort of kink/role-play for her clients.

In the stage adaptation of the film, Yvette's character remains relatively the same, albeit she is more flirtatious compared to her film counterpart.

## Role in the film

Yvette is first seen in the Library of Hill House, polishing champagne glasses while listening to the Bill Haley & His Comets' cover of *Shake, Rattle, and Roll* by Charles Calhoun. She is interrupted by the butler Wadsworth, asking her if she has her instructions. When he leaves, she checks her shoes after smelling the excrement of the German Shepherds Wadsworth had stepped on earlier.

When the first guest, Colonel Mustard, arrives at Hill House, he is brought to the Library where Yvette is serving champagne, and offers some to him. When Mrs. White, the second guest, arrives and brought to the Library, both her and Yvette flinched upon seeing each other. Wadsworth makes a quip that they "seem to know each other". Yvette continues to offer the rest of the guests champagne as they arrive to Hill House.

When the power goes off, Yvette heads to the Billiard Room to talk to someone, where it's revealed that she's not actually French, but has an American accent. She is later strangled to death by the voice with the Rope. When the power is turned back on, everyone discovers Yvette's corpse laying on the billiard table, the Rope still around her neck.

After her death, Wadsworth reveals that she was one for Mr. Boddy's informants, having given him information about Mrs. White, as well possibly Colonel Mustard and Miss Scarlet.

## Endings

**SPOILER WARNING: This section contains spoilers.**
The identity of Yvette's murderer changes in each of the endings:

### Ending 1 - How It Might Have Happened

Wadsworth deduces that Yvette killed both Mr. Boddy and Mrs. Ho, given that she was the only one not present in the Study with the others. She first killed Ho with the knife while everyone was in a panic about Mr. Boddy's "death". When everyone headed towards the kitchen to confront the cook, Yvette stayed behind in the study and hid, and once Boddy tried to escape, she followed him with the candlestick and killed him in the hall. She would drag Boddy's corpse into the bathroom. Once the power shuts off, Yvette heads towards the billiard room to meet Scarlet, only to be killed by her with the rope.

### Ending 2 - How About This?

Mrs. Peacock kills Yvette, as well as the other victims, to make sure they didn't reveal any information about her husband.

### Ending 3 - Here's What Really Happened

Mrs. White kills Yvette in a jealous rage for sleeping with her husband.

### Scrapped fourth ending

In the scrapped fourth ending, Wadsworth is revealed to be the murderer of all victims.

## Other appearances

### Clue: On Stage

In the stage adaptation of the film, Yvette remains largely the same, yet a bit more flirtatious than before.

At the 2017 world premiere at Bucks County Playhouse, Yvette was played by Claire Simba.

### Cluedo: A New Play

In the British touring production of *Cluedo* (based on Clue: On Stage), Yvette is played by Laura Kirman.

## Trivia

* One of the potential actresses to play the role of Yvette was American songwriter-singer Madonna.
* Colleen Camp got the role of Yvette after attending the auditions in a French maid's outfit.
* In the 2004 computer video game *Inspector Parker in Betrapped!*, the family maid Juliette Minouche is modelled after Yvette.
* In Case #37 of the hidden-objects mobile game *Criminal Cases: Mysteries of the Past*, "Death Comes to Lunch", one of the suspects, Francine, bares a striking resemblance to Yvette, albeit with brunette hair.

## External links

Yvette on Villians Wiki

Yvette on Female Villains Wiki