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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.
Nov 19, 2017 · It tells the story of a light-skinned black woman who returns home to Mississippi after attending nursing school in the North. Immediately upon arriving home Pinky, whose real name is Patricia Johnson, is reminded of the horrific manner in which blacks are treated in places like Mississippi.
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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- Elia Kazan, John Ford
- 1949-11
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...
Pinky 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 aft...
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Oct 1, 2004 · According to the film, Pinky is black, but light-skinned enough to pass for white, and we learn that she has passed while in the North, and fallen in love with a white man, Tom Adams (William Lundigan).
Pinky tells the story of Patricia Johnson (Jeanne Crain), a Black woman whose skin is so light that the locals have nicknamed her title nickname. Her grandmother, Dicey Johnson (Ethel Waters) has slaved away taking in washing in order to send her to nursing school in the North, but when Pinky returns to the squalor of the small southern town ...
