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Pinky is a american film of genre Drama directed by Elia Kazan released in USA on 28 september 1949 with Jeanne Crain
Pinky (1949)
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Add to a movie listPinky is a 1949 American race drama film starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters about a light-skinned African-American woman passing for white, played by Crain.
All three actresses were nominated for the Academy Award, Crain for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Barrymore and Waters for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
The film was adapted from the Cid Ricketts Sumner novel Quality by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols and directed by Elia Kazan.
Pinky was released by Twentieth Century Fox to both critical acclaim and controversy.
Synopsis
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.Actors
Jeanne Crain
(Patricia "Pinky" Johnson)
Ethel Barrymore
(Miss Em)
Ethel Waters
(Dicey Johnson)
Nina Mae McKinney
(Rozelia)
William Lundigan
(Dr. Thomas Adams)
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