Pinky1949
The poignant story of a girl who fell hopelessly in love!
Director
Screenplay
Philip Dunne, Dudley Nichols
Actors
Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan, Basil Ruysdael, Kenny Washington, Nina Mae McKinney, Griff Barnett, Arthur Hunnicutt
Music
Versions
Theatrical – 102 Minutes
Genres
About the film
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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