Pinky

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

Jeanne Crain

as Patricia "Pinky" Johnson

Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore

as Miss Em

Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters

as Dicey Johnson

William Lundigan

William Lundigan

as Dr. Thomas Adams

Basil Ruysdael

Basil Ruysdael

as Judge Walker

Kenny Washington

Kenny Washington

as Dr. Canady

Nina Mae McKinney

Nina Mae McKinney

as Rozelia

Griff Barnett

Griff Barnett

as Dr. Joe McGill

Frederick O'Neal

Frederick O'Neal

as Jake Walters

Evelyn Varden

Evelyn Varden

as Melba Wooley

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Jeanne Crain is the eponymousous young nurse - of mixed race - trying to get by in her grandmother's Southern town. She takes a shine to local (white) doctor "Adams" (William Lundigan) but when her ethnicity becomes better knows, however, that all goes awry. Determined to head back to the more enlig...

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