Pinky

Synopsis

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.

Director

Elia Kazan

Written by

Philip Dunne

Music

Alfred Newman

Studio

20th Century Fox

Released

28 September 1949

Genres

Drama