Home, Sweet Home (1914)

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55 min - Biography | Drama - 17 May 1914 (USA)

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John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart... See full summary »

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	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 Eastener, Robert Winthrop
	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 Son
	Fred Burns	...	The Sheriff
	Courtenay Foote	...	The Husband

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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. Written by Snow Leopard

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