Pinky (1950)
Directed by Elia Kazan · 102 min · Drama
20.6 TOPICAL score · #4,453 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
Pinky (1950, directed by Elia Kazan) has a TOPICAL score of 20.6 - ranked 4,453 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and audience, and lowest on cast. It won 0 awards from 2 nominations. Critics: 67% on Rotten Tomatoes · 5.9/10 critics' average. Audiences: TMDB 7.1/10 (52 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 19 languages.
Why this score
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- Critics67% on Rotten Tomatoes · 5.9/10 critics' average
- AudienceTMDB 7.1/10 (52 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 2 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 19 languages
- Still read7,822 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Jeanne Crain (actor #1,291), Ethel Barrymore (actor #1,220), Ethel Waters, William Lundigan