Home, Sweet Home

The story

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins leading a life of dissolute habits, which soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he recalls better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.

Cast & crew

Henry B. WalthallJohn Howard Payne

Josephine CrowellPayne's Mother

Lillian GishPayne's Sweetheart

Dorothy GishSister of Payne's Sweetheart

Mae MarshApple Pie Mary Smith

Robert HarronThe Eastener, Robert Winthrop

Jack PickfordThe Mother's Son

Fay TincherThe Worldly Woman

Spottiswoode AitkenJames Smith - Mary's Father

Miriam CooperThe Fiancee

Mary AldenThe Mother

Donald CrispThe Mother's Son