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Pinky

Pinky

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 28, 1949

Runtime

1h 42m

Genres

Drama

User Score

72%

Original Title

Pinky

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Director

Elia Kazan

Description

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.