
Pinky
The poignant story of a girl who fell hopelessly in love!
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.
Drama
Pinky
Rating
7.1/10
Release Date
1949-09-28
Runtime
102 minutes
Status
Released
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)
Production Companies

20th Century Fox