Pinky

Elia Kazan (director)
Cid Ricketts Sumner (novel)
Anthony Ugrin (photographer)
Philip Dunne, Dudley Nichols (screenwriters)
Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters (starring)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949. Vintage studio still photograph of Basil Ruysdael and Jeanne Crain from the 1949 film.

Based on the 1946 novel "Quality" by Cid Ricketts Sumner.

When Pinky Johnson (Jeanne Crain) returns home to the South to visit her grandmother, she confesses that she's been passing for a white woman while up North studying to be a nurse. She also confesses she is in love with Dr. Thomas Adams (William Lundigan), a white man unaware she is black.

Nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Actress and two Best Supporting Actress nominations.

8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.


[Book #148205]