Home, Sweet Home (1914 film)

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.

A scene from the film featuring a violinist

Home, Sweet Home
Title card
Directed by	D. W. Griffith
Written by	Harry Aitken D. W. Griffith
Starring	Earle Foxe Henry Walthall Dorothy Gish Lillian Gish
Cinematography	G. W. Bitzer
Edited by	James Smith Rose Smith
Distributed by	Mutual Film
Release date	May 17, 1914 (1914-05-17)
Running time	55 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Plot

A still from Home, Sweet Home (1914)

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