Pinky
Pinky is a 1949 American race drama film starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters about a light-skinned black woman passing for white, played by Crain.
Plot
Pinky Johnson (Jeanne Crain) returns to the South to visit Dicey (Ethel Waters), the illiterate black laundress grandmother who raised her. Pinky confesses to Dicey that she passed for white while studying to be a nurse in the North. She had also fallen in love with white Dr. Thomas Adams (William Lundigan), who knows nothing about her black heritage.
More details
| author | Dudley Nichols Philip Dunne |
|---|---|
| director | Elia Kazan John Ford |
| editor | Harmon Jones |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | african american end greedy relative law enforcement old friend pass serve white woman |
| musicBy | Alfred Newman |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| producer | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| theme | black race and ethnicity |