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Hetty Kelly. Florence Henrietta " Hetty " Kelly (August 28, 1893 – November 4, 1918 [1]) was an Irish dancer and music hall performer and the first love of movie comedian Charlie Chaplin . Life. Kelly's father was a window-frame maker in Camberwell, [1]. Her siblings both found success and made themselves noteworthy to some degree.
Nov 11, 2015 · Hetty Kelly (1893 – 4th November 1918) was an Irish-born 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.
Jul 30, 2012 · This subject will often be debated, with some enthusiasts and historians adding Hetty Kelly, Charlie’s first love, and even Paulette Goddard, his third wife and star of Modern Times and The Great Dictator, to that list. I hope with these two blogs I will explain why I have chosen this group.
Nov 22, 2012 · The film makes a big deal of the 19-year-old Chaplin's infatuation with Hetty Kelly (Moira Kelly), a 15-year-old dancer. The real Chaplin also made a big deal of this in his dotage,...
Dec 25, 1992 · The haunting aftereffects of an unrequited first love for teen-age music hall dancer Hetty Kelly is the movie’s explanation for this predilection for what Mary Pickford delicately calls “jail...
Nov 8, 2012 · Thursday, November 8, 2012. Charlie and Hetty: The Story Concludes. From A Comedian Sees the World in Woman’s Home Companion (Sept. 1933), this continues from my previous post. When we last saw the infatuated Chaplin, Hetty had left her troupe and gone to the Continent.
Limelight, 1952. The character of Terry, the young dancer, was equally clearly based on Chaplin’s mother, Hannah, though with reminiscences too of Chaplin’s first and never forgotten love, Hetty Kelly.
