Pinky (1949) DVD Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore & Ethel Waters

Pinky (1949) B&W DVD Approx. 101 min. Shown in original aspect ratio 1.33:1 Optional English subtitles / close captions. Beautifully remastered. Region One - Playable in the US, Canada, Mexico, etc. Starring: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan Written by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols, based on “Quality” by Cid Ricketts Sumner Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck Directed by Elia Kazan Pinky Johnson (Jeanne Crain) returns to the South to visit Dicey (Ethel Waters), 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 a white man, Dr. Thomas Adams (William Lundigan), who knows nothing about her black heritage. Dicey asks Pinky to stay temporarily to care for her ailing, elderly white friend and neighbor Miss Em (Ethel Barrymore). Pinky has always disliked Miss Em and considers her another of the many bigots in the area. Pinky relent