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.
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, The Mother's Half-Wit 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
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 Berringer)
Teddy Sampson
The Maid
Ralph Lewis
Unknown
Irene Hunt
Unknown
John T. Dillon
Unknown
Earle Foxe
Unknown
Walter Long
(as W.H. Long)
George Siegmann
Unknown
Karl Brown
The Fiddle Player
W.E. Lawrence
Unknown
F.A. Turner
Unknown
Howard Gaye
Unknown
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