Plot:

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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Actors - Crew

Jeanne Crain
Patricia "Pinky" Johnson

Ethel Barrymore
Miss Em

Ethel Waters
Dicey Johnson

William Lundigan
Dr. Thomas Adams

Basil Ruysdael
Judge Walker

Kenny Washington
Dr. Canady

Philip Dunne
Screenplay

Cid Ricketts Sumner
Novel

Dudley Nichols
Screenplay

Harmon Jones
Editor

Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer

Elia Kazan
Director

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