Home, Sweet Home

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Henry B. Walthall

John Howard Payne

Age : 58 | Popularity : 7%

Josephine Crowell

Payne's Mother

Age : 73 | Popularity : 3%

Lillian Gish

Payne's Sweetheart

Age : 99 | Popularity : 8%

Dorothy Gish

Sister of Payne's Sweetheart

Age : 70 | Popularity : 3%

Mae Marsh

Apple Pie Mary Smith

Age : 73 | Popularity : 8%

Robert Harron

The Eastener, Robert Winthrop

Age : 27 | Popularity : 5%

Jack Pickford

The Mother's Son

Age : 36 | Popularity : 3%

Fay Tincher

The Worldly Woman

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Writer	H.E. Aitken D.W. Griffith
Sound	Original Music Composer	Joseph Carl Breil
Camera	Director of Photography	Billy Bitzer
Directing	Director	D.W. Griffith
Department	Role	Name

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