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Pinky

1949 1h 42m star 7.1 / 10

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.

Top Billed Cast

Jeanne Crain

Jeanne Crain

Patricia "Pinky" Johnson

Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore

Miss Em

Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters

Dicey Johnson

William Lundigan

William Lundigan

Dr. Thomas Adams

Basil Ruysdael

Basil Ruysdael

Judge Walker

Kenny Washington

Kenny Washington

Dr. Canady

Nina Mae McKinney

Nina Mae McKinney

Rozelia

Griff Barnett

Griff Barnett

Dr. Joe McGill

Frederick O'Neal

Frederick O'Neal

Jake Walters

Evelyn Varden

Evelyn Varden

Melba Wooley