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Pinky is a 1949 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay was adapted by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols based on Cid Ricketts Sumner's 1946 novel Quality. It stars Jeanne Crain as the title character, a young light-skinned black woman who passes for white.
Pinky: Directed by Elia Kazan, John Ford. With Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan. A light-skinned black woman falls in love with a white doctor, though he is unaware of her true race.
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- Drama
- Elia Kazan, John Ford
- 1949-11
Pinky (Pinki) 1949 Jeanne Crain. Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house after graduating from a nursing school and falling in love with a young doctor...
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- Avi Kohn
Pinky (Jeanne Crain) is a black woman so fair-skinned she was able to pose as white throughout nursing school. Newly graduated, she flees south to visit her grandmother (Ethel Waters) after...
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- Jeanne Crain
- Elia Kazan
- Drama
Aug 9, 2018 · Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school.
- 102 min
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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 at school in the North.
Pinky is a movie about a black nurse who passes as white and inherits a plantation in Mississippi. It was a landmark case in film censorship and a battle for civil rights.
