Movie

Pinky (1949)

• September 28, 1949
• 1h 42m

• Drama

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

Overview

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.

Director

Elia Kazan

Writers

Cid Ricketts Sumner, Philip Dunne, Dudley Nichols

Starring

Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters