Pinky (1949)
The poignant story of a girl who fell hopelessly in love!
1949 · 1h 42m · Drama
Genres: Drama
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.
Director: Elia Kazan
Writers: Cid Ricketts Sumner, Philip Dunne, Dudley Nichols
Music by: Alfred Newman
Cinematography: Joseph MacDonald
Editor: Harmon Jones
Rated 7.1/10 by 52 viewers
Cast
Jeanne Crain as Patricia "Pinky" JohnsonEthel Barrymore as Miss EmEthel Waters as Dicey JohnsonWilliam Lundigan as Dr. Thomas AdamsBasil Ruysdael as Judge WalkerKenny Washington as Dr. CanadyNina Mae McKinney as RozeliaGriff Barnett as Dr. Joe McGillFrederick O'Neal as Jake WaltersEvelyn Varden as Melba WooleyRaymond Greenleaf as Judge ShorehamFred Aldrich as Townsman (uncredited)More like this
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