Pinky (1949) - (Movie Clip) There's An Old Colored Woman

Pinky - (Original Trailer)

A light-skinned black woman (Jeanne Crain) returns home after passing for white in nursing school in Eliz Kazan's Pinky (1949).

Pinky (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Clever Imitations

Jeanne Crain (title character), still passing for white, but under orders from her black grandmother, is the reluctant nurse and maid to the overly candid Miss Em (Ethel Barrymore), in Elia Kazan's Pinky, 1949.

Pinky (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Dicey Johnson

Opening sequence from Elia Kazan's Pinky, 1949, finds heroine Jeanne Crain (title character) wistfully returning to find her grandmother Dicey (Ethel Waters), from the novel by Cid Ricketts Sumner.

Pinky (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Ask His Forgiveness!

After years away at nursing school up north, Jeanne Crain (title character), just returned to the down-south home of her poor black grandmother Dicey (Ethel Waters), confesses that she's been passing for white, in Elia Kazan's Pinky, 1949.