Home, Sweet Home (film)
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| Home, Sweet Home | |
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| Directed by | D.W. Griffith |
| Written by | H.E. Aitken D.W. Griffith |
| Starring | Earle Foxe Henry Walthall Dorothy Gish Lillian Gish |
| Cinematography | G.W. Bitzer |
| Editing by | James Smith Rose Smith |
| Release date(s) | 17 May 1914 |
| Running time | 55 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | Silent English intertitles |
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Home, Sweet Home was a 1914 American silent biographical drama directed by D.W. Griffith. The film starred Earle Foxe, Henry Walthall and Dorothy Gish in the lead roles.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
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