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.| Status: | Released (1949-09-28) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 3 Oscars. 4 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $4,200,000 |
| Screen: | Cid Ricketts Sumner, Philip Dunne, Dudley Nichols |
| Productions: | 20th Century Fox |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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- 98570: Ethel Waters - Dicey Johnson
- 18805: William Lundigan - Dr. Thomas Adams
- 100919: Basil Ruysdael - Judge Walker
- 132700: Kenny Washington - Dr. Canady
- 127560: Nina Mae McKinney - Rozelia
Crews
- 30288: Joseph MacDonald - Director of Photography - Camera
- 226654: Cid Ricketts Sumner - Novel - Writing
- 8502: Darryl F. Zanuck - Producer - Production
- 127678: Harmon Jones - Editor - Editing
- 2746: Elia Kazan - Director - Directing
- 13802: Dudley Nichols - Screenplay - Writing
- 116326: Philip Dunne - Screenplay - Writing
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Jeanne Crain is the eponymousous young nurse - of mixed race - trying to get by in her grandmother's Southern town. She takes a shine to local (white) doctor "Adams" (William Lundigan) but when her ethnicity becomes better knows, however, that all goes awry. Determined to head back t ....
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