1950
Academy Awards
Actress
Jeanne Crain
Actress in a Supporting Role
Ethel Barrymore
Actress in a Supporting Role
Ethel Waters

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, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
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1950
Actress
Jeanne Crain
Actress in a Supporting Role
Ethel Barrymore
Actress in a Supporting Role
Ethel Waters
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