Pinky (movie)

Pinky (movie)

  • User score: 7.1
  • Production country: United States of America
  • Producer: Elia Kazan
  • Production companies: 20th Century Fox
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release date: 9/28/1949
  • Run time: 102 min.

Movie description

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.

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Jeanne Crain

Jeanne Crain

Role(s): Patricia "Pinky" Johnson

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Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore

Role(s): Miss Em

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Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters

Role(s): Dicey Johnson

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William Lundigan

William Lundigan

Role(s): Dr. Thomas Adams

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Basil Ruysdael

Basil Ruysdael

Role(s): Judge Walker

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