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.
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Cast
- Henry B. WalthallJohn Howard Payne
- Josephine CrowellPayne's Mother
- Lillian GishPayne's Sweetheart
- Dorothy GishSister of Payne's Sweetheart
- Mae MarshApple Pie Mary Smith
- Robert HarronThe Eastener, Robert Winthrop
- Jack PickfordThe Mother's Son
- Fay TincherThe Worldly Woman
- Spottiswoode AitkenJames Smith - Mary's Father
- Miriam CooperThe Fiancee
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- D.W. GriffithDirector
- H.E. AitkenWriter
- D.W. GriffithWriter
- Billy BitzerDirector of Photography
- Joseph Carl BreilOriginal Music Composer
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