Pinky
The poignant story of a girl who fell hopelessly in love!
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.
- Production
- 20th Century Fox
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Cast
Jeanne Crain
Patricia "Pinky" Johnson
Ethel Barrymore
Miss Em
Ethel Waters
Dicey Johnson
William Lundigan
Dr. Thomas Adams
Basil Ruysdael
Judge Walker
Kenny Washington
Dr. Canady
Nina Mae McKinney
Rozelia
Griff Barnett
Dr. Joe McGill
Frederick O'Neal
Jake Walters
Evelyn Varden
Melba Wooley
Raymond Greenleaf
Judge Shoreham
Fred Aldrich
Townsman (uncredited)
Margaret Brayton
Nurse (uncredited)
Paul Brinegar
Western Union Clerk (uncredited)
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
Man (uncredited)
Dick Dickinson
Man (uncredited)
Everett Glass
Jeffers Wooley (uncredited)
William Hansen
Mr. Goolby (uncredited)
Jimmie Horan
Townsman (uncredited)
Arthur Hunnicutt
Police Chief Anderson (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Elia Kazan
- Writers
- Philip Dunne,Dudley Nichols
- Producers
- Darryl F. Zanuck
- Cinematography
- Joseph MacDonald
- Composer
- Alfred Newman
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CinemaSerf
July 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 women gradually start to respect one and other, and s…