Pinky 1949
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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.
- Released: 1949-09-28
- Runtime: 102 minutes
- Genre: Drama
- Stars: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan, Basil Ruysdael
- Director: Philip Dunne, Joseph MacDonald, Cid Ricketts Sumner, Harmon Jones, Elia Kazan
