Pinky is a 1949 American drama film starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, and Nina Mae McKinney. The film was adapted from the Cid Ricketts Sumner novel Quality by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols and directed by Elia Kazan.
The film is about light-skinned, African-American nursing student, Patricia "Pinky" Johnson (Crain), passing for a Caucasian. Pinky was released by Twentieth Century Fox to both critical acclaim and controversy.