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Pinky is a 1949 American race drama film starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters about a light-skinned African-American woman passing for white, played by Crain. All three actresses were nominated for the Academy Award, Crain for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Barrymore and Waters for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
The film was adapted from the Cid Ricketts Sumner novel Quality by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols and directed by Elia Kazan.
Pinky was released by Twentieth Century Fox to both critical acclaim and controversy.
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 white Dr. Thomas Adams (William Lundigan), who knows nothing about her black heritage.
Pinky is harassed by racist local law enforcement while attempting to reclaim money owed to her grandmother. Later two white men try to sexually assault her. Dr. Canady (Kenny Washington), a black physician, asks Pinky to train black students who want to become nurses, but Pinky tells him she plans to return North.
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Plot: After 20 years on the police force, Officer Tina Jackson encounters a case that shakes her to her core. As she hunts down an elusive child molester she grapples with emerging and painful memories. Can she continue to be an upstanding, law abiding, and objective police officer under these extreme circumstances? Or will she throw away her many years of exemplary service and numerous awards for a moment of revenge? Officer TJ falls back on her trusted community allies and spirituality for support. While Chanting, Therapy and Drumming for Healing have always worked in the past, Officer TJ now faces a new demon. As the situation reaches an explosive ending, who will remain standing?
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Plot: Ashes is the story of a young Indo-American man who struggles in the inner city of New York to support himself and his mentally ill older brother. When a group of small time Indian gangsters offer Ashes an easy road to wealth, he pursues them with vigor. With his brother's health on the decline and Ashes on a steady path towards hardcore crime, Ashes must try to choose the correct path. A story of traditional Indian values set in the unforgiving New York streets.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Suzanne Bingham (miscellaneous crew), Jeff Olson (actor), Peter D'Alessio (actor), Ronald L. Carr (miscellaneous crew), Bart Johnson (actor), Brian Wimmer (actor), Rick Macy (actor), Cary Glieberman (producer), Don Most (actor), Cary Glieberman (actor), K. Danor Gerald (actor), Dusty Dukatz (producer), Jimmy Chunga (actor), Paul Block (miscellaneous crew), Jesse Bennett (actor),
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Plot: Jim Knight is the captain of a ship trading in the South Seas. He runs into trouble when he makes port at an island where crooks Malone and Ross hold the natives under their cruel domination while they seek a fortune in pearls. Knight and his crew are taken prisoners and he falls for native princess Mareva, and her non-plump charms are more than enough motivation for Knight to put an end to Malone and his henchmen, and also the the greedy police commissioner Lamoret.
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Trailer for the racially-themed screen classic, PINKY (1949), starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters and William Lundigan. The three lead actresses were all nominated for Academy Awards: Jeanne Crain (Best Actress) and Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters (Best Supporting Actress). Waters was the second African-American to be nominated for an Oscar. Per IMDB: "John Ford was the original director of the film, but after seeing dailies Darryl F. Zanuck felt Ford wasn't connecting with the material. Zanuck called Elia Kazan in New York and asked him to take over the film. Kazan felt he owed Zanuck for his film career, and agreed to do the movie without even looking at the script. He flew to Los Angeles and started filming the next Monday." "Lena Horne initially campaigned to play ...
http://www.daarac.org/2013/06/pinky-1949.html 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, Pinky has fallen in love with a young white doctor, Dr. Thomas Adams, who knows nothing about her black heritage. Pinky says that she will return to the North, but Granny Johnson convinces her to stay and treat an ailing white woman, Miss Em. Meanwhile, Dr. Canady, a black physician from another part of the state, visits Pinky and asks her to train some African American students, but she declines. Pinky nurses Miss Em but is resentful because she seems to feel that she is doing the same thing her grandmothe...
A white actress, Jeanne Crain, played Pinky Johnson, a light complexion Black woman in the 1949 movie Pinky which co-starred Ethel Waters.
Pinky (Jeanne Crain), a black woman who works as a nurse in Boston, finds she is able to "pass for white." Afraid her true heritage will be discovered, she leaves her white fiancé (William Lundigan) and returns home to Mississippi. There, she helps her ailing grandmother (Ethel Waters) by caring for her employer (Ethel Barrymore), an imperious plantation owner. When she names Pinky heiress to her estate, the community rises in resentment, triggering a sensational court trial. Subject of landmark Supreme Court case in film censorship, this story about a mulatto woman's rights against prejudice, became itself, a battle for civil rights.
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. Video tribute to the beautiful and talented actress, Jeanne Crain (1925-2003), featuring clips from some of her famous films from 1940s and 1950s. I always loved her beautiful, natural, girl-next-door quality. Hopefully, this video captured some of that. Margaret Whiting is performing the vocals. Enjoy! Clips from: "State Fair" (1945) "Leave Her To Heaven" (1945) "Margie" (1946) "A Letter To Three Wives" (1949) "Pinky" (1949) "Dangerous ...
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