Pinky (1949)
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The poignant story of a girl who fell hopelessly in love!
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.
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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 McGillFrederick O'NealJake Walters
Evelyn VardenMelba Wooley
Raymond GreenleafJudge Shoreham
Fred AldrichTownsman (uncredited)Keywords
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What is Pinky about?
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.
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Pinky has a runtime of 102 minutes.
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