Home, Sweet Home (1914)

5.0/10 55 min Drama Fantasy

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

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

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