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Pinky is a 1949 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay was adapted by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols based on Cid Ricketts Sumner 's 1946 novel Quality. It stars Jeanne Crain as the title character, a young light-skinned black woman who passes for white.
Pinky is a film about a light-skinned black woman who passes for white in the North and falls in love with a white doctor. She returns to her grandmother's house in the South and faces racial discrimination and a court battle over her inheritance.
- (3.4K)
- Drama
- Elia Kazan, John Ford
- 1949-11
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 at school in the North.
Pinky (Jeanne Crain) is a black woman so fair-skinned she was able to pose as white throughout nursing school. Newly graduated, she flees south to visit her grandmother (Ethel...
- (18)
- Jeanne Crain
- Elia Kazan
- Drama
Dec 23, 2023 · Drama, Racial, African-American. dir: Elia Kazan, John Ford. Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan. Pinky, a light-skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school.
Aug 9, 2018 · Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school.
- 102 min
- 1452
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Pinky is a movie about a black nurse who passes as white and inherits a plantation in Mississippi. It was a landmark case in film censorship and a battle for civil rights.
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