Pinky
- Released on
Drama
•- Runtime
- 102 mins
(44 votes)
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.
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
- Ethel Barrymore
- Ethel Waters
- William Lundigan
- Basil Ruysdael
- Kenny Washington
- Nina Mae McKinney
- Griff Barnett
- Frederick O'Neal
- Evelyn Varden
- Raymond Greenleaf
- Fred Aldrich
- Shelby Bacon
- Rene Beard
- Arthur Berkeley
- Mildred Boyd
- Margaret Brayton
- Paul Brinegar
- Noble 'Kid' Chissell
- Tom Coleman
- Eve Conrad
- Bert Conway
- Jack Curtis
- Josette Deegan
- Dick Dickinson
- Kay Garrett
- Everett Glass
- William Hansen
- Jimmie Horan
- Arthur Hunnicutt
- Jean Inness
- Wilfred Jackson
- Frank Jaquet
- Michael Jeffers
- Beverly Ruth Jordan
- Geraldine Jordan
- Pat Kane
- Philip Kieffer
- Read Killgore
- Al Kunde
- Warren Mace
- Tiger Joe Marsh
- Russell Meeker
- Juanita Moore
- Robert Osterloh
- Ruth Rickaby
- Dan Riss
- Katherine Sparks
- George Spaulding
- Harry Tenbrook
- Jim Toney
- Bess Wade
- Pat Walshe
- Blue Washington
- Jasper Weldon
Director
- Elia Kazan
Producers
- Darryl F. Zanuck
Screenwriter
- Philip Dunne
- Dudley Nichols
