Movielogr
Pinky (1949)
Directed by Elia Kazan
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.
Length 102 minutes
Actors
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 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