Pinky

Name: Pinky
Director: Elia Kazan
Genre: Drama
Released: 1949-09-28
Duration: 1 h 42 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan, Basil Ruysdael

Directed by Elia Kazan

Drama

19491h 42m7.1

Overview

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.