Pinky
Drama
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.
1949-09-28
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Cast
Director
Elia Kazan
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
Raymond Greenleaf as Judge Shoreham
Fred Aldrich as Townsman (uncredited)
Margaret Brayton as Nurse (uncredited)
Paul Brinegar as Western Union Clerk (uncredited)
Noble 'Kid' Chissell as Man (uncredited)
Dick Dickinson as Man (uncredited)
Everett Glass as Jeffers Wooley (uncredited)
William Hansen as Mr. Goolby (uncredited)
Jimmie Horan as Townsman (uncredited)
Arthur Hunnicutt as Police Chief Anderson (uncredited)
Michael Jeffers as Man (uncredited)
Juanita Moore as Nurse (uncredited)
Robert Osterloh as Police Officer (uncredited)
Dan Riss as Mr. Stanley (Wooleys' Attorney) (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook as Townsman (uncredited)
Jim Toney as Baggage Man (uncredited)
Blue Washington as Man (uncredited)