Pinky was released in the United States on , by 20th Century-Fox. It generated considerable controversy because of its subject of race relations and the casting of Crain to play a black woman.
Pinky: Directed by Elia Kazan, John Ford. With Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan. A light-skinned black woman falls in love with a white doctor, though he is unaware of her true race.
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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.
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Pinky (Jeanne Crain), a black woman who works as a nurse in Boston, finds she is able to ""pass for white."" Afraid her true heritage will be discovered, she leaves her white fiancé (William Lundigan) and returns home to Mississippi.
Kazan’s 1949 “Pinky” grapples with this question through the lens of passing-for-white Pinky Johnson fleeing back home to the South after receiving a Northern education in nursing, fearing that her White doctor beau will discover she’s colored.