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
Jeanne Crain
as Patricia "Pinky" Johnson
William Lundigan
as Dr. Thomas Adams
Blue Washington
as Man (uncredited)
Paul Brinegar
as Western Union Clerk (uncredited)
Juanita Moore
as Nurse (uncredited)
William Hansen
as Mr. Goolby (uncredited)
Jimmie Horan
as Townsman (uncredited)
Arthur Hunnicutt
as Police Chief Anderson (uncredited)
Everett Glass
as Jeffers Wooley (uncredited)
Ethel Waters
as Dicey Johnson
Kenny Washington
as Dr. Canady
Griff Barnett
as Dr. Joe McGill
Fred Aldrich
as Townsman (uncredited)
Robert Osterloh
as Police Officer (uncredited)
Basil Ruysdael
as Judge Walker
Frederick O'Neal
as Jake Walters
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
as Man (uncredited)
Dick Dickinson
as Man (uncredited)
Dan Riss
as Mr. Stanley (Wooleys' Attorney) (uncredited)
Jim Toney
as Baggage Man (uncredited)
Ethel Barrymore
as Miss Em
Evelyn Varden
as Melba Wooley
Harry Tenbrook
as Townsman (uncredited)
Raymond Greenleaf
as Judge Shoreham
Margaret Brayton
as Nurse (uncredited)
Michael Jeffers
as Man (uncredited)
