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1949

Pinky

Directed by Elia Kazan
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.

Duration

1h 42m

Released

September 28, 1949

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Rating46

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Cast55

  • Jeanne Crain
  • Ethel Barrymore
  • Ethel Waters
  • William Lundigan
  • Basil Ruysdael
  • Kenny Washington
  • Nina Mae McKinney
  • Griff Barnett
  • Frederick O'Neal

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