Pinky

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Based on the novel by Cid Ricketts Sumner.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1949.
Special features: Audio commentary by film historian Kenneth Geist; original theatrical trailer.
Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan.
Patricia 'Pinky' Johnson returns to her home in the South after studying nursing in New England. When her grandmother's boss, Miss Em, becomes ill, Pinky cares for her. Miss Em leaves her estate to her, but Pinky faces a long court battle to keep it.
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo., Dolby Digital mono, single layer, NTSC.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Ahead of its time, sort of submitted by Will O on August 30, 2020, 10:49am This was a very far ahead of its time and also so very mired in its time movie.
Jeanne Crain, the actress playing Pinky is white, playing a white passing black woman which is very of its time as mixed race relationships were not allowed under The Hays Code.
The message of bigotry and racism was heavy handed at times but also pretty bold for when it was made. Toward the end it veered into a courtroom drama which I wasn't expecting and it ended in a very forward thinking way with Pinky telling Tom (William Lundigan) the white man who wanted to marry her that she wasn't going to move away with him and instead stays behind where she grew up and starts a school and hospital for children of color in her local community while no longer hiding her ethnicity. A slow start but like many movies of the era it packs a lot of story into a sub two hour movie and the message is still all too timely.