Pinky
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, Pinky has fallen in love with a young white doctor, Dr. Thomas Adams, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
Genre: Drama
Director: Elia Kazan
Actors: Basil Ruysdael, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, Evelyn Varden, Frederick O'Neal, Griff Barnett, Jeanne Crain, Kenny Washington, Nina Mae McKinney, William Lundigan