Pinky
1949 · directed by Elia Kazan
- Rating
- 70/100
- Hit
- no
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.
Pinky (1949), directed by Elia Kazan, rates 70/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Jeanne Crain
- Ethel Barrymore
- Ethel Waters
- William Lundigan
- Basil Ruysdael
- Kenny Washington
- Nina Mae McKinney
- Griff Barnett
- Frederick O'Neal
- Evelyn Varden
Crew
- Joseph MacDonald — Director of Photography
- Harmon Jones — Editor
- Alfred Newman — Original Music Composer
- Dudley Nichols — Screenplay
- Philip Dunne — Screenplay
More from Elia Kazan
- On the Waterfront (1954) — 98/100 · hit
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) — 97/100 · hit
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) — 84/100 · hit
- Panic in the Streets (1950) — 81/100 · hit
- Wild River (1960) — 81/100 · hit
- A Face in the Crowd (1957) — 80/100 · hit
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