Home, Sweet Home (1914 film)
1914 American film
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Home, Sweet Home is a 1914 American silent biographical drama directed by D. W. Griffith.[1] It stars Earle Foxe, Henry Walthall, and Dorothy Gish.
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| Directed by | D. W. Griffith |
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| Cinematography | G. W. Bitzer |
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| Distributed by | Mutual Film |
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Running time | 55 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Plot
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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 inspires several others in their own times of need.
Cast
- Henry B. Walthall as John Howard Payne
- Josephine Crowell as Payne's mother
- Lillian Gish as Payne's sweetheart
- Dorothy Gish as the sister of Payne's sweetheart
- Fay Tincher as the worldly woman
- Mae Marsh as Apple Pie Mary
- Spottiswoode Aitken as Mary's father
- Robert Harron as the easterner, Robert Winthrop
- Miriam Cooper as the fiancée
- Mary Alden as the mother
- Donald Crisp as the mother's son
- Earle Foxe
- James Kirkwood as the mother's son
- Jack Pickford as the mother's son
- Fred Burns as the sheriff
- Courtenay Foote as the husband
- Blanche Sweet as the wife
