Pinky

Pinky is a 1949 American drama film adapted from the Cid Ricketts Sumner novel by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols and was directed by Elia Kazan. John Ford was originally hired to direct the film, but was replaced after one week because producer Darryl F. Zanuck was unhappy with the dailies. Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge were considered for the lead role, however, Zanuck chose to cast a white actress instead. Released by Twentieth Century Fox, the film starred Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, and Nina Mae McKinney. Patricia "Pinky" Johnson returns to the South to 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. She had also fallen in love with white Dr. Thomas Adams , who knows nothing about her Black heritage. Pinky is subjected to racism by local law enforcement while attempting to reclaim money owed to her grandmother, later two white men attempt to sexually assault her. Dr.
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