Pinky

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1949 · 102 min · Drama · TMDB 7.1/10

Overview

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.

Directed by Elia Kazan

Cast

• Jeanne Crain — Patricia "Pinky" Johnson
• Ethel Barrymore — Miss Em
• Ethel Waters — Dicey Johnson
• William Lundigan — Dr. Thomas Adams
• Basil Ruysdael — Judge Walker