Pinky
1949, Film, 102 min, Drama, English, United States, MoviePedia score 68
The poignant story of a girl who fell hopelessly in love!
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, John Ford
Cast
- Jeanne Crain as Patricia 'Pinky' Johnson
- Ethel Barrymore as Miss Em
- Ethel Waters as Dicey Johnson
- William Lundigan as Dr. Thomas Adams
- Basil Ruysdael as Judge Walker
- Kenny Washington as Dr. Canady
- Nina Mae McKinney as Rozelia
- Griff Barnett as Dr. Joseph 'Doc Joe' McGill
- Frederick O'Neal as Jake Walters
- Evelyn Varden as Melba Wooley
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