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Academy Award Actress in a Supporting Role 1950 · Nominated
Academy Award Actress in a Supporting Role 1950 · Nominated
Pinky (Jeanne Crain) is a black woman so fair-skinned she was able to pose as white throughout nursing school. Newly graduated, she flees south to visit her grandmother (Ethel Waters) after a doctor, unaware of her true ancestry, proposes to her. Unsure how to react, she looks to her grandmother, who warns her that only trouble will come of an...