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Edith Kelly (sister) 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 .
Jul 30, 2012 · Putting the gossip aside, for me the women who shaped, moulded and even changed Chaplin were his mother Hannah, Mabel Normand, Edna Purviance and of course Oona O’Neill. 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 ...
Mar 10, 2015 · Charlie’s first love was a 15 year-old dancer named Hetty Kelly whom he saw perform at the London Music Hall in 1908 when he was 19 and unknown. True to his later form he proposed marriage to her at once and was devastated when she refused him. She would die at 25 during the great Flu Pandemic of 1918.
Jan 3, 1993 · Ms. Kelly, who takes such declarations with the requisite grain of salt, says she related more to Hetty Kelly than to Oona O'Neill. "She wasn't as well educated or as proper as Oona," she says.
Nov 11, 2015 · Hetty Kelly. 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. She was with a song and dance troupe, Bert Coutts’ Yankee-Doodle ...
Hetty Kelly was an Irish-born dancer and music hall performer, and the first love of movie comedian Charlie Chaplin. Career Chaplin met her in 1908 in London when they were both performing for impresario Fred Karno at the Streatham Empire.
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 ...