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 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