Overview

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.

Details

Cast

Jeanne Crain

Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Waters

William Lundigan

Basil Ruysdael

Kenny Washington

Nina Mae McKinney

Griff Barnett

Frederick O'Neal

Evelyn Varden