Pinky

Movie · 1h 42m

Starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan

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.