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.

Her sister, musical comedy actress Edith Kelly, married American millionaire Frank Jay Gould, and later Albert de Courville.

[1] Kelly died in October 1918[1] in the Spanish flu epidemic that ravaged Europe in the wake of the First World War.

Charlie Chaplin met Kelly in 1908 in London when they were both performing for impresario Fred Karno at the Streatham Empire.

[5] She was with a song and dance troupe, Bert Coutts' Yankee-Doodle Girls, and Chaplin was playing a drunk in Mumming Birds.