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.
Top Cast
Henry B. Walthall as John Howard Payne
Josephine Crowell as Payne's Mother
Lillian Gish as Payne's Sweetheart
Dorothy Gish as Sister of Payne's Sweetheart
Mae Marsh as Apple Pie Mary Smith
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