Pinky

7.2 / 10

(42 votes)

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.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

102 minutes

Year:

1949

Director:

Elia Kazan

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Company:

20th Century Fox

Cast:
Jeanne Crain

Patricia "Pinky" Johnson

Ethel Barrymore

Miss Em

Ethel Waters

Dicey Johnson

William Lundigan

Dr. Thomas Adams

Basil Ruysdael

Judge Walker

Crew:
Philip Dunne

Screenplay

Joseph MacDonald

Director of Photography

Cid Ricketts Sumner

Novel

Harmon Jones

Editor

Elia Kazan

Director