Home, Sweet Home

Home, Sweet Home

55 mins | Drama, Fantasy | May 16, 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.

Home, Sweet Home

55 mins | Drama, Fantasy | May 16, 1914

Home, Sweet Home
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.
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers Majestic Motion Picture Company, Reliance Film Company
Original title Home, Sweet Home
Directors D.W. Griffith
Writers D.W. Griffith, H.E. Aitken

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

Mae Marsh

as Apple Pie Mary Smith

Robert Harron

as The Eastener, Robert Winthrop

Jack Pickford

as The Mother's Son / The Mother's Half-Wit Son

Fay Tincher

as The Worldly Woman

Spottiswoode Aitken

as James Smith - Mary's Father

Miriam Cooper

as The Fiancee

Mary Alden

as The Mother

Donald Crisp

as The Mother's Son

James Kirkwood

as The Mother's Son

Fred Burns

as The Sheriff

Courtenay Foote

as The Husband

Blanche Sweet

as The Wife

Owen Moore

as The Tempter

Edward Dillon

as The Musician

Betty Marsh

as The Baby

George Beranger

as The Accordian Player (as George Berringer)

Teddy Sampson

as The Maid

Walter Long

as (as W.H. Long)

Karl Brown

as The Fiddle Player