Details
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 & Crew
- Henry B. Walthall , Josephine Crowell , Lillian Gish , Dorothy Gish , Mae Marsh , Robert Harron , Jack Pickford , Fay Tincher
- D.W. Griffith