Release Date

28 Sep, 1949

Runtime

01:42: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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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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 'Kid' Chissell

Tom Coleman

Eve Conrad

Crew

Joseph MacDonald

Cid Ricketts Sumner

Darryl F. Zanuck

Harmon Jones

Elia Kazan

Dudley Nichols

Philip Dunne

Lyle R. Wheeler

J. Russell Spencer

Thomas Little

Walter M. Scott

Ben Nye

Alfred Newman

Elia Kazan