Movie

Pinky

★ 7.1/10 · 52 votes 1949 1h 42m Released

Drama

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