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Home, Sweet Home (1914)

5 | May 16, 1914 (US) | Drama, Fantasy | 00:55

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.

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Henry B. Walthall
John Howard Payne
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Josephine Crowell
Payne's Mother
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Lillian Gish
Payne's Sweetheart
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Dorothy Gish
Sister of Payne's Sweetheart
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Mae Marsh
Apple Pie Mary Smith
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Robert Harron
The Eastener, Robert Winthrop
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Jack Pickford
The Mother's Son
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Fay Tincher
The Worldly Woman
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Spottiswoode Aitken
James Smith - Mary's Father
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Miriam Cooper
The Fiancee

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