Overview

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.

Featured Cast

Henry B. Walthall

Josephine Crowell

Lillian Gish

Dorothy Gish

Mae Marsh

Robert Harron

Fay Tincher

Spottiswoode Aitken

Miriam Cooper

Mary Alden