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"Patricia "Pinky" Johnson returns to the South to visit Dicey, 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 in Boston. She also confesses that she had fallen in love with white Dr. Thomas Adams, who knows nothing about her black heritage. Back at home in Mississippi, she is named heiress of an estate that her family has worked for, but the will is contested by a relative of the old woman who had bequeathed the estate, and this leads to a court case, which everyone thinks Pinky has no chance of winning."@en
"A light-skinned African American woman (Jeanne Crain) who's been passing for white at a northern nursing school returns to the South, where she's asked to care for an ailing white woman (Ethel Barrymore), who wants nothing to do with her. Pinky must negotiate tricky racial politics in life and love."
"A light-skinned African American woman (Jeanne Crain) who's been passing for white at a northern nursing school returns to the South, where she's asked to care for an ailing white woman (Ethel Barrymore), who wants nothing to do with her. Pinky must negotiate tricky racial politics in life and love."@en
"Patricia 'Pinky' Johnson returns to her home in the South after studying nursing in New England. When her grandmother's boss, Miss Em, becomes ill, Pinky cares for her. Miss Em leaves her estate to her, but Pinky faces a long court battle to keep it."@en
"Patricia 'Pinky' Johnson returns to her home in the South after studying nursing in New England. When her grandmother's boss, Miss Em, becomes ill, Pinky cares for her. Miss Em leaves her estate to her, but Pinky faces a long court battle to keep it."
"A racially mixed woman working as a nurse in Boston finds she can pass as White, but leaves her fiance afraid that her true heritage will be discovered. Back at home in Mississippi, she is named heiress of an estate that her family has worked for, touching off a heated situation among the locals amidst a trial."
"When a black woman is named heiress to an estate the community rises in resentment, triggering a sensational court trial."@en
"This was one of the first Hollywood films to address issues of racial prejudice and identity. Jeanne Crain stars as Patricia Johnson or Pinky (an expression used in the black community to designate anyone with light skin who could "pass" in the white community), a bright, young woman who has been attending nursing school in Boston. While there, she meets a handsome physician who wishes to marry her despite miscegnation laws. Believing that such a marriage could never work and unwilling to renounce her black heritage, Pinky returns to her grandmother's home in the South. There, she is humiliated by southern racism and considers returning North to live as a free "white" woman. Ironically, Pinky develops a sense of self through a cantankerous old dowager under her care. When the elderly woman dies leaving her estate to Pinky, the woman's family contests the will but Pinky emerges victorious. Realizing that she has been fleeing her true self, Pinky decides to remain and help her people by converting the property into a nursing school for black women. Though the film broke new ground in the depiction of interracial relations, southern exhibitors refused to screen the movie upon its release. (Circulates)."
"Pioneer racial drama of a black girl passing for white, returning to her southern home, and struggling with romantic problems and the dilemma of whether to remain in the South."
"Pinky, a black woman who works as a nurse, is able to "pass for white." Afraid her true heritage will be discovered, she leaves her white fiance ́and returns home to Mississippi to help her ailing grandmother by caring for her employer, an imperious plantation owner. When the employer names Pinky heiress to her estate, the community rises in resentment, triggering a sensational court trial."
"Pinky, a black woman who works as a nurse, is able to "pass for white." Afraid her true heritage will be discovered, she leaves her white fiance ́and returns home to Mississippi to help her ailing grandmother by caring for her employer, an imperious plantation owner. When the employer names Pinky heiress to her estate, the community rises in resentment, triggering a sensational court trial."@en
"A young African American nurse, working in Boston and passing for white, suffers from a bad conscience and returns home to Mississippi to her family."
"Pinky Johnson is a pretty, light-skinned Negro nursing student who's been passing for white, a fact she's kept secret from her Granny and the young doctor she's in love with."@en
"This pioneer racial drama from socially conscious Studio under Zanuck is dated but still a rare example of liberal under Zanuck is dated but still a rare example of liberal white returns to her home in the South, facing personal crisis' and bigotry."@en