Home, Sweet Home
movie
Released May 16, 1914
Overview
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.
Cast
Henry B. Walthall
as
John Howard Payne
Josephine Crowell
as
Payne's Mother
Lillian Gish
as
Payne's Sweetheart
Dorothy Gish
as
Sister of Payne's Sweetheart
Mae Marsh
as
Apple Pie Mary Smith
Robert Harron
as
The Eastener, Robert Winthrop
Jack Pickford
as
The Mother's Son
Fay Tincher
as
The Worldly Woman
Spottiswoode Aitken
as
James Smith - Mary's Father
Miriam Cooper
as
The Fiancee
Mary Alden
as
The Mother
Donald Crisp
as
The Mother's Son
