Pinky (1949)
"The poignant story of a girl who fell hopelessly in love!"
 
    Title: Pinky
Original Title: Pinky
Release Date: 1949-09-28
Status: Released
Rating: 7.064/10 (from 47 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Drama
Production Companies: 20th Century Fox
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.
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
 
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
            