
Pinky
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.
Release Date: 1949-09-28
Drama
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Casts

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. Joe McGill

Frederick O'Neal
as Jake Walters

Evelyn Varden
as Melba Wooley