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Home, Sweet Home (1914 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Home, Sweet Home' (1914) is an American silent biographical drama directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Earle Foxe, Henry Walthall and Dorothy Gish.
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 dissolute life that leads 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 Fiance
* 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
* Blanche Sweet .... The Wife
See also
*Lillian Gish filmography
*Blanche Sweet filmography
References
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