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Pinky

The poignant story of a girl who fell hopelessly in love!

1949 · 1h 42m

Directed by Elia Kazan

7.1

TMDB audience score
52 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Jeanne Crain
    Patricia "Pinky" Johnson

  • Ethel Barrymore
    Miss Em

  • Ethel Waters
    Dicey Johnson

  • William Lundigan
    Dr. Thomas Adams

  • Basil Ruysdael
    Judge Walker

  • Kenny Washington
    Dr. Canady

  • Nina Mae McKinney
    Rozelia

  • Griff Barnett
    Dr. Joe McGill

  • Frederick O'Neal
    Jake Walters

  • Evelyn Varden
    Melba Wooley

  • Raymond Greenleaf
    Judge Shoreham

  • Fred Aldrich
    Townsman (uncredited)

  • Shelby Bacon
    Boy (uncredited)

  • Rene Beard
    Teejore (uncredited)

  • Arthur Berkeley
    Townsman (uncredited)

  • Mildred Boyd
    Nurse (uncredited)

  • Margaret Brayton
    Nurse (uncredited)

  • Paul Brinegar
    Western Union Clerk (uncredited)