Pinky(1949)

movie - first aired/released 1949-09-28 - audience 7.1

Directed by Elia Kazan

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.