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" stars Jeanne Crain as Pinky Johnson, a black woman who looks white, so much so that she when she studies nursing in New York, she easily enters the white world and becomes involved with a white doctor who wants to marry her.
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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 is a 1949 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay was adapted by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols based on Cid Ricketts Sumner's 1946 novel Quality. It stars Jeanne Crain as the title character, a young light-skinned black woman who passes...
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Pinky (1949) was yet another Zanuck-produced “social problem” film, this time about a light-skinned African American woman (Jeanne Crain) who returns to her Southern hometown after turning down a marriage proposal from a white man who was unaware of her racial heritage.