
Film
Home, Sweet Home
1914 · 55m · Drama · Fantasy
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- 5.8
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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
Crew
- D.W. GriffithDirector · Writer
- H.E. AitkenWriter
- Billy BitzerDirector of Photography
- Joseph Carl BreilOriginal Music Composer
Media
Details
- Release date
- May 16, 1914
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 55m
- Rated
- NR
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy
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