
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.

as John Howard Payne

as Payne's Mother

as Payne's Sweetheart

as Sister of Payne's Sweetheart

as Apple Pie Mary Smith

as The Eastener, Robert Winthrop

as The Mother's Son

as The Worldly Woman

as James Smith - Mary's Father

as The Fiancee

as The Mother

as The Mother's Son

as The Mother's Son

as The Mother's Half-Wit Son

as The Sheriff

as The Husband

as The Wife

as The Tempter

as The Musician

as The Baby

as The Accordian Player (as George Berringer)

as The Maid





as (as W.H. Long)


as The Fiddle Player


