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Home, Sweet Home is a american film of genre Drama directed by D. W. Griffith released in USA on 16 may 1914 with Henry B. Walthall
Home, Sweet Home (1914)
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Add to a movie listHome, Sweet Home (1914) is an 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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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.Actors
Henry B. Walthall
(John Howard Payne)
Mae Marsh
(Apple Pie Mary Smith)
Mary Alden
(The Mother)
Lillian Gish
(Payne's Sweetheart)
Josephine Crowell
(Payne's Mother)
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