John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins leading a life of dissolute habits, which soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he recalls better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.
Directed by D.W. Griffith
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Cast
Henry B. Walthall
John Howard Payne
Josephine Crowell
Payne's Mother
Lillian Gish
Payne's Sweetheart
Dorothy Gish
Sister of Payne's Sweetheart
Mae Marsh
Apple Pie Mary Smith
Robert Harron
The Eastener, Robert Winthrop
Jack Pickford
The Mother's Son
Fay Tincher
The Worldly Woman
Spottiswoode Aitken
James Smith - Mary's Father
Miriam Cooper
The Fiancee
Mary Alden
The Mother
Donald Crisp
The Mother's Son
James Kirkwood
The Mother's Son
Jack Pickford
The Mother's Half-Wit Son
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