Pinky

Year: 1949

Runtime: 102 mins

Language: English

Director: Elia Kazan

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After graduating from a Northern nursing school, Pinky, a light‑skinned Black woman, returns to her Southern grandmother's home. She confides that she has been passing as white at school and reveals her secret, hopeless romance with a young white doctor who knows nothing of her Black heritage, creating a poignant conflict between identity and love.

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