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Pinky

  • September 1949
  • 1hr

    42mins

  • Drama
  • Directed by

    Elia Kazan,

    Starring

    Jeanne Crain,

    Ethel Barrymore,

    Ethel Waters,

    William Lundigan

    ...

    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.