Home, Sweet Home (1914)

Home, Sweet Home

1914

Drama Fantasy

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

D.W. Griffith

Cast

Dorothy Gish as Sister of Payne's Sweetheart

Fay Tincher as The Worldly Woman

Henry B. Walthall as John Howard Payne

Jack Pickford as The Mother's Son

Josephine Crowell as Payne's Mother

Lillian Gish as Payne's Sweetheart

Mae Marsh as Apple Pie Mary Smith

Miriam Cooper as The Fiancee