Basil Ruysdael, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters
It used to be called "miscegenation," and it hasn't been a scandalous or taboo subject for several decades now. (Every other prime-time TV series seems to have an interracial romance going, and nobody...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 10, 2006
Stats: 38 reviews
Pinky was something like An Imitation of Life, but only she stopped denying her real self, an negro lady......yeah she make have lived as a white girl going to nursing shool while her black grandmother worked very hard washing and ironing clothes so she could be educated and have...( read more)
I watched as it's an Elia Kazan flick I had not seen. It's along the lines of "Imitation of Life" only for me not nearly as well done; never the less a very brave subject for it's time.
PS the plot here at Flixter is wrong. Ethel Waters plays Pinky's Grandmother - not her Aunt.
Another favorite. A young girl(Jeanne Crain)who is black but passed for white in order to have the best, comes back home to her grandmother and has her own carefully constructed world crashing down. I guess the lesson here is no matter where or how far you go, you just can't forg...( read more)
One of the first movies to challenge racism! It did a pretty good job at it to. Jeanne Crain was good in the film, however they should have cast a black actress in the lead.
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