Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Pinky [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox ; producer, Darryl F. Zanuck ; director, Elia Kazan, screenplay by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols.

Publisher, Date:

Beverly Hills, Ca. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2005]

Description:

1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

A black woman working as a nurse in Boston finds she can pass as a White, but leaves her lover afraid that her true heritage will be discovered. Back at home in Mississippi, she is named heiress of an estate that her family has worked for, touching off a heated situation among the locals amidst a trial.

Series:

Cinema classics collection.

Subjects:

Sumner, Cid Ricketts, 1890-1970 -- Film and video adaptations.

Film adaptations.

Passing (Identity) -- Drama.

African Americans -- Race identity -- Drama.

Feature films.

Racially mixed people -- Mississippi -- Drama.

Mississippi -- Race relations -- Drama.

Other Author:

Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979.