How to Pronounce Hetty Kelly
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Oct 01, 1893 Died on 04 Nov 1918 (aged 25)
the first love of Charlie Chaplin
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About Hetty Kelly
- Henrietta "Hetty" Kelly (1893 – October 1918) was an Irish dancer and music hall performer, and the first love of movie comedian Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin met her in 1908 in London when they were both performing for impresario Fred Karno at the Streatham Empire.
- She was with a song and dance troupe, Bert Coutts' Yankee-Doodle Girls, and Chaplin was playing a drunk in 'Mumming Birds'.
- He was 19 and she was 15.
- He remembered her as "a slim gazelle, with a shapely oval face, a bewitching full mouth, and beautiful teeth".
- She came to be the female ideal in Chaplin's mind and he recreated her in some of the female leads in his movies.
- Chaplin wrote in his autobiography, written in 1964: "Although I had met her but five times, and scarcely any of our meetings had lasted longer than twenty minutes, that brief encounter affected me for a long time."
