Pinky

E82384

American drama film film

Pinky is a 1949 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan that explores race, identity, and passing in the segregated American South.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American drama film → film →
authorOfSourceWork	Cid Ricketts Sumner →
awardNomination	Academy Award for Best Actress → Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress → Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (second nomination) →
basedOn	Quality (novel) →
belongsToCatalog	20th Century Fox film library →
censorshipControversy	challenged by segregationist groups in the American South →
cinematographyBy	Joseph MacDonald →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
director	Elia Kazan →
discusses	segregation in the United States →
distributedIn	theatrical release →
distributor	Twentieth Century-Fox →
editedBy	Harmon Jones →
filmEra	Classical Hollywood cinema →
filmFormat	black-and-white film →
genre	drama film →
hasColorProcess	black and white →
leadActorNominee	Jeanne Crain →
mainTheme	identity → race → racial passing → racism in the American South →
musicBy	Alfred Newman →
narrativeFocus	African American woman passing as white →
notableFor	early Hollywood treatment of racial passing →
originalLanguage	English →
producer	Darryl F. Zanuck →
productionCompany	Twentieth Century-Fox →
releaseDate	1949-09-29 →
releaseYear	1949 →
runtimeMinutes	102 →
screenwriter	Dudley Nichols → Philip Dunne →
settingLocation	American South →
starring	Ethel Barrymore → Ethel Waters → Jeanne Crain →
supportingActorNominee	Ethel Barrymore → Ethel Waters →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Elia Kazan →	directed
Harmon Jones →	edited
Harmon Jones →	notableWork