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Pinky

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Calorie Rating: 143
Released: 1949-09-28
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Studios: 20th Century Fox,


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 / Directors

Elia Kazan
Director


Cast

Jeanne Crain
Character: Patricia "Pinky" Johnson
Ethel Barrymore
Character: Miss Em
Ethel Waters
Character: Dicey Johnson

William Lundigan
Character: Dr. Thomas Adams
Basil Ruysdael
Character: Judge Walker
Kenny Washington
Character: Dr. Canady

Nina Mae McKinney
Character: Rozelia
Griff Barnett
Character: Dr. Joe McGill
Frederick O'Neal
Character: Jake Walters

Evelyn Varden
Character: Melba Wooley
Raymond Greenleaf
Character: Judge Shoreham
Fred Aldrich
Character: Townsman (uncredited)

Shelby Bacon
Character: Boy (uncredited)
Rene Beard
Character: Teejore (uncredited)
Arthur Berkeley
Character: Townsman (uncredited)

Mildred Boyd
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Margaret Brayton
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Paul Brinegar
Character: Western Union Clerk (uncredited)

Noble 'Kid' Chissell
Character: Man (uncredited)
Tom Coleman
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Eve Conrad
Character: Woman (uncredited)

Bert Conway
Character: Loafer (uncredited)
Jack Curtis
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Josette Deegan
Character: Woman (uncredited)

Dick Dickinson
Character: Man (uncredited)
Kay Garrett
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Everett Glass
Character: Jeffers Wooley (uncredited)

William Hansen
Character: Mr. Goolby (uncredited)
Jimmie Horan
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Arthur Hunnicutt
Character: Police Chief Anderson (uncredited)

Jean Inness
Character: Viola (Goolby's Saleslady) (uncredited)
Wilfred Jackson
Character: Boy (uncredited)
Frank Jaquet
Character: Bailiff (uncredited)

Michael Jeffers
Character: Man (uncredited)
Beverly Ruth Jordan
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Geraldine Jordan
Character: Girl (uncredited)

Pat Kane
Character: Man (uncredited)
Philip Kieffer
Character: Man (uncredited)
Read Killgore
Character: Loafer (uncredited)

Al Kunde
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Warren Mace
Character: Intern (uncredited)
Tiger Joe Marsh
Character: George (Wooleys' Chauffeur) (uncredited)

Russell Meeker
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Juanita Moore
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Robert Osterloh
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)

Ruth Rickaby
Character: Matron (uncredited)
Dan Riss
Character: Mr. Stanley (Wooleys' Attorney) (uncredited)
Katherine Sparks
Character: Woman (uncredited)

George Spaulding
Character: Medical Director (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Jim Toney
Character: Baggage Man (uncredited)

Bess Wade
Character: Woman (uncredited)
Pat Walshe
Character: Young Man (uncredited)
Blue Washington
Character: Man (uncredited)

Jasper Weldon
Character: Man (uncredited)


Production and Crew

Dudley Nichols
Screenplay

Joseph MacDonald
Director of Photography
Philip Dunne
Screenplay

Lyle R. Wheeler
Art Direction
J. Russell Spencer
Art Direction
Thomas Little
Set Decoration

Ben Nye
Makeup Artist
Walter M. Scott
Set Decoration
Alfred Newman
Original Music Composer

Elia Kazan
Additional Writing
Edward B. Powell
Orchestrator

Fred Sersen
Special Effects