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Pinky

(1949)

September 28, 1949 1h 42m
71%
TMDB Score

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.

Elia Kazan

Director

Top Billed Cast

JC

Jeanne Crain

Patricia "Pinky" Johnson

EB

Ethel Barrymore

Miss Em

EW

Ethel Waters

Dicey Johnson

WL

William Lundigan

Dr. Thomas Adams

BR

Basil Ruysdael

Judge Walker

KW

Kenny Washington

Dr. Canady

NMM

Nina Mae McKinney

Rozelia

GB

Griff Barnett

Dr. Joe McGill

FO

Frederick O'Neal

Jake Walters

EV

Evelyn Varden

Melba Wooley

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