| Release Date: | May 1914 |
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| Genres: | Biography / Drama |
| Cast: | Henry B. Walthall (John Howard Payne), Josephine Crowell (Payne's Mother), Lillian Gish (Payne's Sweetheart), Dorothy Gish (Sister of Payne's Sweetheart), Fay Tincher (The Worldly Woman), Mae Marsh (Apple Pie Mary), Spottiswoode Aitken (Mary's Father), Robert Harron (The Eastener, Robert Winthrop), 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 Son), Fred Burns (The Sheriff), Courtenay Foote (The Husband), Blanche Sweet (The Wife), Owen Moore (The Tempter), Edward Dillon (The Musician), Betty Marsh (The Baby), George Beranger (The Accordian Player (as George...), Karl Brown (Fiddle Player), John T. Dillon (), Earle Foxe (), Howard Gaye (), Irene Hunt (), W.E. Lawrence (), Ralph Lewis (), Walter Long ((as W.H. Long)), Teddy Sampson (The Maid), George Siegmann (), F.A. Turner () |
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.
