16 May 1914 Fantasy, Drama 55 mins
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.
Watch the official Home, Sweet Home 1914 trailer in HD below.
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
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
Jack Pickford as The Mother's Half-Wit Son
Fred Burns as The Sheriff
Courtenay Foote as The Husband
H.E. Aitken Writer
Joseph Carl Breil Original Music Composer
Billy Bitzer Director of Photography
D.W. Griffith Director
D.W. Griffith Writer
United States 16 May 1914
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