Pinky (film)
Pinky is a 1949 American race drama film starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters about a lightskinned AfricanAmerican woman passing for white, played by Crain. All three actresses were nominated for the Academy Award, Crain for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Barrymore and Waters for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
Pinky Johnson Jeanne Crain returns to the South to visit Dicey Ethel Waters, the illiterate black laundress grandmother who raised her. Pinky confesses to Dicey that she passed for white while studying to be a nurse in the North. She had also fallen in love with white Dr. Thomas Adams William Lundigan, who knows nothing about her black heritage.Pinky is harassed by racist local law enforcement while attempting to reclaim money owed to her grandmother. Later two white men try to sexually assault her. Dr. Canady Kenny Washington, a black physician, asks Pinky to train black students who want to become nurses, but Pinky tells him she plans to return North. ........
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