Home, Sweet Home (1914)
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins leading a life of dissolute habits, which soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he recalls better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.
- Released
- 1914-05-16
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy
- Runtime
- 55 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- D.W. Griffith
- TMDB rating
- 5.0/10 from 15 votes
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