Pinky
Pinky
Release: 1949-09-28
·Runtime: 102m
·★ 7.1
Drama
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 Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
20th Century Fox
Cast
William Hansen
as Mr. Goolby (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
as Townsman (uncredited)
Ethel Waters
as Dicey Johnson
Raymond Greenleaf
as Judge Shoreham
Margaret Brayton
as Nurse (uncredited)
Jimmie Horan
as Townsman (uncredited)
Blue Washington
as Man (uncredited)
Basil Ruysdael
as Judge Walker
Frederick O'Neal
as Jake Walters
Evelyn Varden
as Melba Wooley
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
as Man (uncredited)
Dick Dickinson
as Man (uncredited)
Arthur Hunnicutt
as Police Chief Anderson (uncredited)
Everett Glass
as Jeffers Wooley (uncredited)
Juanita Moore
as Nurse (uncredited)
Robert Osterloh
as Police Officer (uncredited)
Griff Barnett
as Dr. Joe McGill
Paul Brinegar
as Western Union Clerk (uncredited)
Dan Riss
as Mr. Stanley (Wooleys' Attorney) (uncredited)
Fred Aldrich
as Townsman (uncredited)
Jim Toney
as Baggage Man (uncredited)
Jeanne Crain
as Patricia "Pinky" Johnson
Ethel Barrymore
as Miss Em
William Lundigan
as Dr. Thomas Adams
Michael Jeffers
as Man (uncredited)
Kenny Washington
as Dr. Canady
