Pinky
(1949)
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
Writers
Cid Ricketts Sumner, Philip Dunne, Dudley Nichols
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Jeanne Crain
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CinemaSerf
⭐ 7/10July 9, 2022
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 enlightened territories in the North, she is persuaded to stay and tend to a wealthy infirm lady "Miss Em" (Ethel Barrymore). Initially frosty, the two wom… read the rest.
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
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