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Pinky

Release Date:September 28, 1949

Running Time:102 min

Genres:Drama

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Cast

Jeanne Crain Ethel Barrymore Ethel Waters William Lundigan Basil Ruysdael Kenny Washington Nina Mae McKinney Griff Barnett Frederick O'Neal Evelyn Varden Raymond Greenleaf Fred Aldrich

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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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