Pinky
The poignant story of a girl who fell hopelessly in love!
1949-09-28 | 102 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Jeanne CrainPatricia "Pinky" Johnson
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Ethel BarrymoreMiss Em
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Ethel WatersDicey Johnson
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William LundiganDr. Thomas Adams
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Basil RuysdaelJudge Walker
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Kenny WashingtonDr. Canady
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Nina Mae McKinneyRozelia
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Griff BarnettDr. Joe McGill
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Frederick O'NealJake Walters
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Evelyn VardenMelba Wooley
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Raymond GreenleafJudge Shoreham
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Fred AldrichTownsman (uncredited)
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Margaret BraytonNurse (uncredited)
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Paul BrinegarWestern Union Clerk (uncredited)
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Noble 'Kid' ChissellMan (uncredited)
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