Synopsis

Pinky (1949)

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
Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan, Basil Ruysdael, Kenny Washington, Nina Mae McKinney, Griff Barnett, Frederick O’Neal, Evelyn Varden, Raymond Greenleaf, Fred Aldrich, Shelby Bacon, Rene Beard, Arthur Berkeley, Mildred Boyd, Margaret Brayton, Paul Brinegar, Noble ‘Kid’ Chissell, Tom Coleman, Eve Conrad, Bert Conway, Jack Curtis, Josette Deegan, Dick Dickinson, Kay Garrett, Everett Glass, William Hansen, Jimmie Horan, Arthur Hunnicutt, Jean Inness, Wilfred Jackson, Frank Jaquet, Michael Jeffers, Beverly Ruth Jordan, Geraldine Jordan, Pat Kane, Philip Kieffer, Read Killgore, Al Kunde, Warren Mace, Tiger Joe Marsh, Russell Meeker, Juanita Moore, Robert Osterloh, Ruth Rickaby, Dan Riss, Katherine Sparks, George Spaulding, Harry Tenbrook, Jim Toney, Bess Wade, Pat Walshe, Blue Washington, Jasper Weldon
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