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
