The poignant story of a girl who fell hopelessly in love!
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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Cast
- Jeanne CrainPatricia "Pinky" Johnson
- Ethel BarrymoreMiss Em
- Ethel WatersDicey Johnson
- William LundiganDr. Thomas Adams
- Basil RuysdaelJudge Walker
- Kenny WashingtonDr. Canady
- Nina Mae McKinneyRozelia
- Griff BarnettDr. Joe McGill
- Frederick O'NealJake Walters
- Evelyn VardenMelba Wooley
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- Elia KazanDirector
- Philip DunneScreenplay
- Dudley NicholsScreenplay
- Cid Ricketts SumnerNovel
- Joseph MacDonaldDirector of Photography
- Alfred NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Harmon JonesEditor
- Darryl F. ZanuckProducer
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