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Pinky

71% | Sep 28, 1949 | Drama

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.

Featured Crew

Philip Dunne
Screenplay
Cid Ricketts Sumner
Novel

Cast

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Jeanne Crain
Patricia "Pinky" Johnson
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Ethel Waters
Dicey Johnson
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William Lundigan
Dr. Thomas Adams
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Basil Ruysdael
Judge Walker

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