Pinky

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Jeanne Crain Patricia "Pinky" Johnson

Ethel Barrymore Miss Em

Ethel Waters Dicey Johnson

William Lundigan Dr. Thomas Adams

Basil Ruysdael Judge Walker