Pinky

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

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Pinky canonical 6

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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
surface form: 20th Century Fox film library
censorshipControversy challenged by segregationist groups in the American South
cinematographyBy Joseph MacDonald
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Elia Kazan
discusses segregation in the United States
distributedIn theatrical release
distributor 20th Century Fox
surface form: 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 20th Century Fox
surface form: Twentieth Century-Fox
releaseDate 1949-09-29
releaseYear 1949
runtimeMinutes 102
screenwriter Dudley Nichols
Philip Dunne
settingLocation Southern United States
surface form: American South
starring Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Waters
Jeanne Crain
supportingActorNominee Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Waters

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Harmon Jones notableWork Pinky
Harmon Jones edited Pinky
Elias Kazantzoglou directed Pinky
subject surface form: Elia Kazan
Ambassador Trentino in Duck Soup notableInteractionWith Pinky
subject surface form: Ambassador Trentino