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Home, Sweet Home (1914 Film)
''Home, Sweet Home'' (1914) is an American silent biographical drama directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Earle Foxe, Henry Walthall and Dorothy Gish. Plot John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and girlfriend, Payne begins to lead a dissolute life that leads to ruin and depression. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song, ''Home! Sweet Home!'' that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need. Cast * Henry B. Walthall .... John Howard Payne * Josephine Crowell .... Payne's Mother * Lillian Gish .... Payne's Sweetheart * Dorothy Gish .... Sister of Payne's Sweetheart * Fay Tincher .... The Worldly Woman * Mae Marsh .... Apple Pie Mary * Spottiswoode Aitken .... Mary's Father * Robert Harron .... The Easterner, Robert Winthrop * Miriam Cooper .... The Fiancée * Mary Alden .... The Mother * Donald Crisp .... The Mother's Son * Earle Foxe * James Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Aitken
Harry E. Aitken (1877August 1, 1956) was a film studio executive. Life He was born on 4 October 1877. He grew up on a family farm near Goerke's Corners, Wisconsin. The brothers operated Keystone Studios and eventually Harry became a partner in the Mutual Film Company. Along with his brother Roy Aitken (1882–1978), he helped pioneer the production and distribution of movies during the early silent film era in the United States. In 1906 they founded the Western Film Exchange with John R. Freuler. They moved to California in 1908 and in 1912 founded the Mutual distribution company. Within three years they were distributing movies to 45 towns and cities. Aitken worked with D. W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin. He was involved with the Majestic and Reliance studios. With D. W. Griffith he co-founded Epoch Producing Company under the umbrella of which The Birth of a Nation was produced. The profits from that film were used to set up the Triangle Film Corporation in 1915, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |