Release Date
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Original Release
September 28, 1949
1h 42m
Pinky (1949)
⭐ 7.1102 min
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.
Director
Elia Kazan
Department: Directing
⭐Popularity: 0.8
Cast
Jeanne Crain
Patricia "Pinky" Johnson
⭐0.6
Ethel Barrymore
Miss Em
⭐0.5
Ethel Waters
Dicey Johnson
⭐0.3
William Lundigan
Dr. Thomas Adams
⭐0.6
Basil Ruysdael
Judge Walker
⭐0.3
Kenny Washington
Dr. Canady
⭐0.1
Nina Mae McKinney
Rozelia
⭐0.2
Griff Barnett
Dr. Joe McGill
⭐0.3
Frederick O'Neal
Jake Walters
⭐0.2
Evelyn Varden
Melba Wooley
⭐0.3
Genres
Drama
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