Home, Sweet Home
About Home, Sweet Home
John Howard Payne leaves home for the theater, ignores his mother and his sweetheart, and drinks his way to ruin. In that state he writes "Home! Sweet Home!" The song then turns up in later episodes, among them one with Apple Pie Mary, and pulls other people back from their own breaks. Henry B. Walthall plays Payne. Lillian Gish plays the sweetheart.
Cast & crew
More about Home, Sweet Home
D. W. Griffith directed. Harry E. Aitken wrote it. G. W. Bitzer and Karl Brown photographed. James Smith edited. Mutual released it on May 17, 1914. Josephine Crowell plays the mother. Dorothy Gish plays the sweetheart's sister. Mae Marsh plays Apple Pie Mary. Robert Harron, Donald Crisp, Mary Alden, and Blanche Sweet are in the later episodes. A copy is on the Internet Archive as Home.Sweet.Home.
Themes
Look
G. W. Bitzer and Karl Brown photographed the Payne story and the later episodes.
Music
The film is built around the song "Home! Sweet Home!"
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Mutual released it. It is not a Biograph one-reeler.
- The 55 minutes cover Payne and the later stories the song enters.
- Marsh's episode is the Apple Pie Mary one.
- Walthall is Payne. Gish is the girl he left.
Scenes
- Payne, ruined, writes the song.
- Apple Pie Mary's episode takes the song up again.
Also available
- Internet Archive (Home.Sweet.Home)
