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Home, Sweet Home 1914 Directed by D.W. Griffith

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.

Country USA
Production Country USA
Language English
Spoken Language No Language
Release Date 16 May 1914
55 mins
Cast
Henry B. Walthall John Howard Payne
Josephine Crowell Payne's Mother
Lillian Gish Payne's Sweetheart
Dorothy Gish Sister of Payne's Sweetheart
Mae Marsh Apple Pie Mary Smith
Robert Harron The Eastener, Robert Winthrop
Jack Pickford The Mother's Son
Fay Tincher The Worldly Woman
Spottiswoode Aitken James Smith - Mary's Father
Miriam Cooper The Fiancee
Mary Alden The Mother
Donald Crisp The Mother's Son
James Kirkwood The Mother's Son
Jack Pickford The Mother's Half-Wit Son
Fred Burns The Sheriff
Courtenay Foote The Husband
Blanche Sweet The Wife
Owen Moore The Tempter
Edward Dillon The Musician
Betty Marsh The Baby
George Beranger The Accordian Player (as George Berringer)
Teddy Sampson The Maid
Walter Long (as W.H. Long)
Karl Brown The Fiddle Player