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Pinky (1949) - (Movie Clip) Open, Dicey Johnson

Opening sequence from Elia Kazan's Pinky, 1949, finds heroine Jeanne Crain (title character) wistfully returning to find her grandmother Dicey (Ethel Waters), from the novel by Cid Ricketts Sumner.

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Pinky (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Ask His Forgiveness!
After years away at nursing school up north, Jeanne Crain (title character), just returned to the down-south home of her poor black grandmother Dicey (Ethel Waters), confesses that she's been passing for white, in Elia Kazan's Pinky, 1949.
Pinky (1949) -- (Movie Clip) There's An Old Colored Woman
Returning to her black grandmother's home in the woods outside an unidentified Southern town, private nurse Jeanne Crain (title character) is surprised to meet fianceè Tom (William Lundigan), and decides to reveal her secret, in Elia Kazan's Pinky, 1949.

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