Hetty Kelly

Florence Henrietta "Hetty" Kelly (September 19, 1893 – November 4, 1918 ) 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. Her sister Mabel married the youngest son of Sir David Evans. At the age of 21, she married Lieutenant (later "Sir") Alan Edgar Horne (1889–1984) in August 1915. Horne was a lieutenant in the Surrey Yeomanry. 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 re-created 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." Chaplin wrote a letter to Hetty Kelly on July 18, 1918.

Kelly died in October 1918