

Pinky
"The poignant story of a girl who fell hopelessly in love!"
Overview
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.
Movie Details
Languages
English
Studio
20th Century Fox
Key Crew

Elia Kazan
Director

Philip Dunne
Screenplay
Cast

Jeanne Crain
Patricia "Pinky" Johnson

Ethel Barrymore
Miss Em

Ethel Waters
Dicey Johnson

William Lundigan
Dr. Thomas Adams

Basil Ruysdael
Judge Walker

Kenny Washington
Dr. Canady

Nina Mae McKinney
Rozelia

Griff Barnett
Dr. Joe McGill

Frederick O'Neal
Jake Walters

Evelyn Varden
Melba Wooley

Raymond Greenleaf
Judge Shoreham

Fred Aldrich
Townsman (uncredited)
Shelby Bacon
Boy (uncredited)
Rene Beard
Teejore (uncredited)
Arthur Berkeley
Townsman (uncredited)
Mildred Boyd
Nurse (uncredited)

Margaret Brayton
Nurse (uncredited)

Paul Brinegar
Western Union Clerk (uncredited)

Noble 'Kid' Chissell
Man (uncredited)
Tom Coleman
Townsman (uncredited)