''Down Home'' is a 1920 American silent

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written, directed, and produced by

Irvin Willat Irvin V. Willat (November 18, 1890 – April 17, 1976) was an American film director of the silent film, silent film era. A short biography reprinted from ''Blue Book of the Screen'' (1923). He directed 39 films between 1917 and 1937. Early i ...

and starring

Leatrice Joy Leatrice Joy (born Leatrice Johanna Zeidler; November 7, 1893 – May 13, 1985) was an American actress most prolific during the silent film era. Early life Joy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to dentist Edward Joseph Zeidler, who was o ...

and James Barrows. The film is based on the novel ''Dabney Todd'', by F. N. Westcott. It was distributed by the independent film distributor

W. W. Hodkinson William Wadsworth Hodkinson (August 16, 1881 – June 2, 1971), known more commonly as W. W. Hodkinson, was born in Independence, Kansas. Known as ''The Man Who Invented Hollywood'', he opened one of the first movie theaters in Ogden, Utah in 190 ...

. An early surviving Leatrice Joy feature at the

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, the film survives.The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''Down Home''
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Cast

as Nance Pelot *

James O. Barrows James Otis Barrows (March 29, 1855 - December 7, 1925) was an American stage and film actor. He spent much of his adult life in the legitimate theater from the Victorian to Edwardian to Georgian eras. Barrows debuted "as a super" at the Califo ...

as Dabney Todd (credited as James Barrows) * Edward Hearn as Chet Todd *

Aggie Herring Agnes Herring (February 4, 1876 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1939. She was born in San Francisco and died in Santa Monica, California.