Pinky
Summary:
Elia Kazan directed this, one of Hollywood's early attacks on racism, starring Jeanne Crain as Patricia "Pinky" Johnson. Patricia is a light-skinned black woman who is studying nursing at a New England medical institute. A white doctor, Thomas Adams (William Lundigan), has fallen in love with Patricia and wants to marry her, but Patricia refuses his proposal. Convinced their int... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Jeanne Crain - (Patricia "Pinky" Johnson)
Ethel Barrymore - (Miss Em)
Ethel Waters - (Granny Dysey Johnson)
William Lundigan - (Dr. Thomas Adams)
Basil Ruysdael - (Judge Walker)
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Review:
Part of the post-war cycle of "social problem" films and one of the first Hollywood productions to tackle American racism head-on (but with a Hollywood casting compromise), Elia Kazan's Pinky (1949) examines Southern bigotry through the experience of an African American woman who can "pass" for white. With Jeanne Crain's Pinky caught betwe... Continue >>
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