(1914) After leaving home and beginning a career in the theater, John Howard Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits which leads to his misery and ruin. 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. Henry Walthall, Mrs. Crowell, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Director: D.W. Griffith.