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
as Patricia "Pinky" Johnson
Ethel Barrymore
as Miss Em
Ethel Waters
as Dicey Johnson
William Lundigan
as Dr. Thomas Adams
Basil Ruysdael
as Judge Walker
Kenny Washington
as Dr. Canady
Nina Mae McKinney
as Rozelia
Griff Barnett
as Dr. Joe McGill
Frederick O'Neal
as Jake Walters
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...
