Genre: Drama, Tear Jerker, Society, Courtroom, Love, Doctor
Tagline: The love story of a girl who passed for white!
Plot: Cid Ricketts's controversial novel about miscegenation comes alive in this deliciously melodramatic film starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Waters and Ethel Barrymore. Pinky, a proud, fair-skinned black woman, leaves her small southern hometown to attend nursing school up north. In Boston, Pinky "passes" for white and lives freely, unfettered by racial discrimination. At school, she dates the handsome -- and white -- Dr. Thomas Adam. Ignorant of her racial identity, he falls in love with her. Recognizing the problems associated with inter-racial marriage, Pinky returns home to her hard-working grandmother, hoping to forget Tom. But he's too dedicated to let her go. Instead, he follows Pinky south and tries to persuade her to renounce her origins and marry him in spite of everything. Will she choose a lifetime of love under false pretenses or make a steadfast decision to uplift her race?
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| Directed by |
Elia Kazan
On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, East of Eden |
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| Written by |
Philip Dunne
How Green Was My Valley, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Agony and the Ecstasy | |
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| Cast |
Jeanne Crain
A Letter to Three Wives, People Will Talk, Cheaper by the Dozen | Ethel Barrymore
The Paradine Case, Portrait of Jennie, The Spiral Staircase | Ethel Waters
Cabin in the Sky, Tales of Manhattan, The Member of the Wedding | | | | | |
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| Music By |
Alfred Newman
All About Eve, The Seven Year Itch, Foreign Correspondent |
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