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.

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
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Release Date
September 28, 1949
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Drama
Director
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