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The poignant story of a girl who fell hopelessly in love! - Pinky
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Title: Pinky

Release Date: 28 Sep 1949

Runtime: 1h 42m

Genre: Drama

Director: 20th Century Fox

Production Companies: 20th Century Fox

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.1 (44 votes)

Cast

  • Patricia "Pinky" Johnson: Jeanne Crain
  • Miss Em: Ethel Barrymore
  • Dicey Johnson: Ethel Waters
  • Dr. Thomas Adams: William Lundigan
  • Judge Walker: Basil Ruysdael
  • Dr. Canady: Kenny Washington
  • Rozelia: Nina Mae McKinney
  • Dr. Joe McGill: Griff Barnett
  • Jake Walters: Frederick O'Neal
  • Melba Wooley: Evelyn Varden
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