Home, Sweet Home
Home, Sweet Home is a 1914 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 inspires several others in their own times of need.
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More details
| author | Harry E. Aitken |
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| director | D. W. Griffith |
| editor | James Smith Rose Smith |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | home! sweet home! john howard payne |
| publisher | Mutual Film |
| theme | biographical drama silent |