Miss Scarlet (2002)

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## Creation & Appearances

### Latest appearance

Cluedo Party: Tudor Mansion Edition (2006)

## Personal details

### Born

16 July 1900
 Cambridge, England

## Relationships

### Family

* Mrs. Patricia Peacock (mother)
* Sir Hugh Black (possible biological father; deceased)
* James Scarlet (legal father; deceased)
* Ernest Zaffer (first step-father; deceased)
* Sir Matthew Peacock (second step-father; deceased)

### Relatives

* Margaret Black (possible paternal aunt; deceased)
* Mr. John Boddy (possible first cousin; deceased)

## Source

 — Miss Josephine Scarlet, Clue FX (2003)

**Miss Josephine Scarlet** is the beautiful, seductive, and estranged daughter of Mrs. Patricia Peacock. Scarlet was an aspiring (yet woefully untalented) actress, who has been seen in several plays in the West End district of London. After falling to make it big in Hollywood, Scarlet decided to take up a new interest: rich old widowers.

After the tabloids have taken poking fun of her latest interest, Josephine reluctantly joins her mother to Tudor Mansion for a small holiday in the Hampshire countryside. Scarlet uses this opportunity however to charm its master, Mr. John Boddy, who is to receive a sizable inheritance from his late uncle Sir Hugh Black, on his 30th birthday.

It is believed that Josephine is the illegitimate child of the late Sir Hugh due to the uncanny resemblance of his sister, the late Margaret Black, who was the mother of Mr. Boddy.

## Profile

### Appearance

Scarlet is a dark-haired beauty with a slender and curvaceous figure. She's wearing a long, backless crimson dress and wears diamond earrings.

### Personality and traits

Josephine Scarlet is a vivacious, charming, and flirtatious young woman. She revels in any form of male attention and are not ashamed to use her feminine wiles to get what she wants. Scarlet is known to be cold and cruel towards her rivals and her mother. Scarlet is used to getting what she wants and doesn’t take kindly to those who stand her way! When she doesn't get what she wants, Scarlet is prone to throwing tantrums.

Scarlet is also not very intelligent, with Mrs. White, Mr. Boddy's housekeeper and former nanny, believing Scarlet to be nothing more "empty-headed tart". Some examples included her believing the Boston Tea Party is an actual tea party.

In *Cluedo Party*, her accent and tone is described as "upper class" and "affected", with some of her mannerisms being blowing kisses, flicking hair, flirtatious giggling and seductive stares.

## Biography

Josephine Scarlet was born to James Scarlet and his wife, the former Miss Patricia Gobelin (now Mrs. Peacock). Since the day she was born, her mother resented the attention her doing father gave to Scarlet. When she was the age of two, James Scarlet had died after falling down the stairs at their country home. Her mother largely ignored her throughout her childhood, which caused resentment on both sides. Her mother would later remarry two more times, both marriages ending with the husband's untimely deaths.

Around some period in Scarlet's adolescence, her mother sent her to the prestigious boarding school, Madame Puce's School for Girls. While at Madame Puce's, Scarlet cheated on exams, played vicious practical jokes on several of her classmates, and had tried to blackmail an instructor in return for a passing grade.

After her expulsion from Madame Puce's School for Girls in 1916, a young Scarlet decided to pursue a career in acting, like her mother did during her youth. Her first acting job was touring with an amateur theatrical company called Midnight Smokes, owned and ran by Jet Midnight, and performed under the name Ruby Raven. Afterwards, Miss Scarlet was able to snag a few small acting roles in the West End, but it was clear she was hired more for her looks than talent. Each production she performed led to a rather short tenure on her part.

In the summer of 1924, Scarlet was the understudy of a respected British actress. During a rehearsal for a new play on the West End, the actress introduced Scarlet to daughter, Miss Amelia Peach, who was close in age to her. The two girls struck up an immediate friendship. The friendship was short-lived, however, as on the night before the premiere of the play, Peach's mother was struck by a piece of falling scenery and could no longer remember her lines. Peach ended up blaming Scarlet for engineering the incident.

Sometime afterwards in the same year, while traveling with a group of amateur thespians in the United States, Scarlet met a young film director from Hollywood. Using her considerable charms, she managed to able to persuade the director with her considerable charm to take her to Hollywood. Scarlet rather enjoyed her time in Hollywood, but her shot at stardom ended abruptly when the director, and a few after him, grew tired of her tantrums, tardiness on sets, and demands of expensive gifts.

Scarlet returned home to England in 1925, and quickly endeared herself in a new pursuit: wealthy and eligible bachelors. The name “Josephine Scarlet” became a frequent subject of the society columns of London’s popular papers, a fact which she herself is proud of. However, the London tabloids caught wind of her latest interests: rich old widowers. To avoid more bad publicity, she reluctantly joined her mother for a long holiday at Tudor Mansion .

## Notes and references

Notes
1. ↑ While her official biography states that Miss Scarlet was born in 1901, the *Clue Mysteries* board game, which is set in 1925, has a case set on her 25th birthday.

Citations

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Clue Mysteries*, "Clocked"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 *Clue Character Biographies*, "Miss Josephine Scarlet"
3. ↑ *Clue Character Biographies*, "Miss Amelia Peach"