Home, Sweet Home (1914)
55 min
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.
- Release date
- May 16, 1914
- Country of origin
- United States
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
- Fay Tincher as The Worldly Woman
- Mae Marsh as Apple Pie Mary Smith
- Spottiswoode Aitken as James Smith - Mary's Father
- Robert Harron as The Eastener, Robert Winthrop
- Miriam Cooper as The Fiancee
- Mary Alden as The Mother
Crew
- D.W. Griffith · Director
- D.W. Griffith · Writer
- H.E. Aitken · Writer
- G.W. Bitzer · Cinematographer