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.

• DirectorElia Kazan
• Release28 September 1949
• GenreDrama
• Duration1h 42m
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  7.1
  44 reviews
• Productions

  20th Century Fox