Plot

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and girlfriend, Payne begins to lead a life of disrepair soon leading to ruin and depression. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song, Home! Sweet Home! 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
• Fay Tincher .... The Worldly Woman
• Mae Marsh .... Apple Pie Mary
• Spottiswoode Aitken .... Mary's Father
• Robert Harron .... The Easterner, Robert Winthrop
• Miriam Cooper .... The Fiancee
• Mary Alden .... The Mother
• Donald Crisp .... The Mother's Son
• Earle Foxe
• James Kirkwood .... The Mother's Son
• Jack Pickford .... The Mother's Son
• Fred Burns .... The sheriff
• Courtenay Foote .... The Husband

See also

• D. W. Griffith filmography
• Lillian Gish filmography

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