Released:
1949-09-28

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

Runtime:
1h 42min

Genre:
Drama

• 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