Pinky

    Pinky
    1949

    Synopsis

    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

    • Jeanne CrainPatricia "Pinky" Johnson
    • Ethel BarrymoreMiss Em
    • Ethel WatersDicey Johnson
    • William LundiganDr. Thomas Adams
    • Basil RuysdaelJudge Walker
    • Kenny WashingtonDr. Canady
    • Nina Mae McKinneyRozelia
    • Griff BarnettDr. Joe McGill
    • Frederick O'NealJake Walters
    • Evelyn VardenMelba Wooley

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