Release Date | 1949-09-28 |
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Runtime | 102 minutes |
Genres | Drama |
Stars | Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan, Basil Ruysdael |
Directors | Philip Dunne, Joseph MacDonald, Cid Ricketts Sumner, Harmon Jones, 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.