Pinky

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.

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  Elia Kazan

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  Jeanne Crain
  Patricia "Pinky" Johnson
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  Ethel Barrymore
  Miss Em
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  Ethel Waters
  Dicey Johnson
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  William Lundigan
  Dr. Thomas Adams
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  Basil Ruysdael
  Judge Walker
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  Kenny Washington
  Dr. Canady
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  Nina Mae McKinney
  Rozelia
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  Griff Barnett
  Dr. Joe McGill
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  Frederick O'Neal
  Jake Walters
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  Evelyn Varden
  Melba Wooley
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  Raymond Greenleaf
  Judge Shoreham
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  Fred Aldrich
  Townsman (uncredited)
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  Shelby Bacon
  Boy (uncredited)
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  Rene Beard
  Teejore (uncredited)
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  Arthur Berkeley
  Townsman (uncredited)
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  Mildred Boyd
  Nurse (uncredited)
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  Margaret Brayton
  Nurse (uncredited)
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  Paul Brinegar
  Western Union Clerk (uncredited)
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  Noble 'Kid' Chissell
  Man (uncredited)
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  Tom Coleman
  Townsman (uncredited)