Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | D.W. Griffith |
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| Writer: | D.W. Griffith, H.E. Aitken |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | May 16, 1914 |
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| Director: | D.W. Griffith |
| Writer: | D.W. Griffith, H.E. Aitken |
| Genres: | Fantasy, Drama |
| Keywords | |
| Production Companies | Majestic Motion Picture Company, Reliance Film Company |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 27, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| Irene Hunt | |
| John T. Dillon | |
| Earle Foxe | |
| Walter Long | (as W.H. Long) |
| George Siegmann | |
| Karl Brown | The Fiddle Player |
| W.E. Lawrence | |
| F.A. Turner | |
| Howard Gaye |
| Name | Job |
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| D.W. Griffith | Director, Writer |
| Billy Bitzer | Director of Photography |
| H.E. Aitken | Writer |
| Joseph Carl Breil | Original Music Composer |
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| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
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