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Pinky
Running Time: 102 min.
Produced By: / 20th Century Fox / Darryl F. Zanuck Productions

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 ... Full Summary >>

Cast and Crew:
Jeanne Crain (Patricia "Pinky" Johnson)
Ethel Barrymore (Miss Em)
Ethel Waters (Granny Dysey Johnson)
William Lundigan (Dr. Thomas Adams)
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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 ... Continue >>

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