Pinky

Overview

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.

Release Date

28 September 1949

102 minutes

Director

Main Cast

Patricia "Pinky" Johnson
Dicey Johnson
Dr. Thomas Adams
Judge Walker
Dr. Joe McGill
Jake Walters
Melba Wooley
Judge Shoreham
Townsman (uncredited)