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.
- Date of release
- 1914-05-16
- TMDB
- 5.0 / 10 (15)
- Runtime
- 55m
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy
- Director
- D.W. Griffith
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
Home, Sweet Home is a 1914 American silent biographical drama directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Earle Foxe, Henry Walthall, and Dorothy Gish.
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