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Film / 1949
Pinky
Directed by
Elia Kazan
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.
The story
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 CrainPatricia "Pinky" Johnson
Ethel BarrymoreMiss Em
Ethel WatersDicey Johnson
William LundiganDr. Thomas Adams
Basil RuysdaelJudge Walker
Kenny WashingtonDr. Canady
Nina Mae McKinneyRozelia
Griff BarnettDr. Joe McGill
Frederick O'NealJake Walters
Evelyn VardenMelba Wooley
Raymond GreenleafJudge Shoreham
Fred AldrichTownsman (uncredited)
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Shelby BaconBoy (uncredited)
Rene BeardTeejore (uncredited)
Arthur BerkeleyTownsman (uncredited)
Mildred BoydNurse (uncredited)
Margaret BraytonNurse (uncredited)
Paul BrinegarWestern Union Clerk (uncredited)
Noble 'Kid' ChissellMan (uncredited)
Tom ColemanTownsman (uncredited)
Eve ConradWoman (uncredited)
Bert ConwayLoafer (uncredited)
Jack CurtisTownsman (uncredited)
Josette DeeganWoman (uncredited)
Dick DickinsonMan (uncredited)
Kay GarrettTownsman (uncredited)
Everett GlassJeffers Wooley (uncredited)
William HansenMr. Goolby (uncredited)
Jimmie HoranTownsman (uncredited)
Arthur HunnicuttPolice Chief Anderson (uncredited)
Jean InnessViola (Goolby's Saleslady) (uncredited)
Wilfred JacksonBoy (uncredited)
Frank JaquetBailiff (uncredited)
Michael JeffersMan (uncredited)
Beverly Ruth JordanGirl (uncredited)
Geraldine JordanGirl (uncredited)
Pat KaneMan (uncredited)
Philip KiefferMan (uncredited)
Read KillgoreLoafer (uncredited)
Al KundeTownsman (uncredited)
Warren MaceIntern (uncredited)
Tiger Joe MarshGeorge (Wooleys' Chauffeur) (uncredited)
Russell MeekerTownsman (uncredited)
Juanita MooreNurse (uncredited)
Robert OsterlohPolice Officer (uncredited)
Ruth RickabyMatron (uncredited)
Dan RissMr. Stanley (Wooleys' Attorney) (uncredited)
Katherine SparksWoman (uncredited)
George SpauldingMedical Director (uncredited)
Harry TenbrookTownsman (uncredited)
Jim ToneyBaggage Man (uncredited)
Bess WadeWoman (uncredited)
Pat WalsheYoung Man (uncredited)
Blue WashingtonMan (uncredited)
Jasper WeldonMan (uncredited)
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