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Pinky

The poignant story of a girl who fell hopelessly in love!

7.1(52)19491h 42m3

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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Released
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Language
English
  • love
  • racism
  • will
  • nursing
  • old south
  • passing for white

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Director

Elia Kazan

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical28 Sept 1949

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Pinky was released on 28 September 1949.

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    CinemaSerf

    7/9/2022

    7/10

    Jeanne Crain is the eponymousous young nurse - of mixed race - trying to get by in her grandmother's Southern town. She takes a shine to local (white) doctor "Adams" (William Lundigan) but when her ethnicity becomes better knows, however, that all goes awry. Determined to head back to the more enlightened territories in the North, she is persuaded to stay and tend to a wealthy infirm lady "Miss Em" (Ethel Barrymore).…

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