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.
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Cast
55 people
Jeanne Crain
Patricia "Pinky" Johnson
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Ethel Waters
Dicey Johnson
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William Lundigan
Dr. Thomas Adams
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Basil Ruysdael
Judge Walker
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Kenny Washington
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Dr. Joe McGill
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Frederick O'Neal
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Evelyn Varden
Melba Wooley
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Raymond Greenleaf
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Fred Aldrich
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Elia Kazan Director · Dudley Nichols Screenplay Philip Dunne Screenplay
Worldwide gross $4.2M · United States release September 28, 1949 · Produced in United States
Box office
Worldwide gross
$4,200,000
Production
20th Century Fox
Production
20th Century Studios
Studio · Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · September 28, 1949
Theatrical
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