Pinky
1950 · 102 min
Directed by Elia Kazan, John Ford. Written by Dudley Nichols, Philip Dunne. Starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan.
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.
Critics 65% · audiences 73% · 3 Oscar nominations