Pinky naked in the shower. "Pinky" stars Jeanne Crain as Pinky Johnson, a black woman who looks white, so much so that she when she studies nursing in New York, she easily enters the white world and becomes involved with a white doctor who wants to marry her. It generated considerable controversy because of its subject of race relations and the casting of Crain to play a black woman. Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house after graduating from a nursing school and falling in love with a young doctor Clic Find out how and where to watch "Pinky" online on Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+ today – including 4K and free options. Pinky was released in the United States on September 29, 1949 by 20th Century-Fox. Pinky (Jeanne Crain), a black woman who works as a nurse in Boston, finds she is able to "pass for white. Pinky was released in the United States on September 29, 1949, by 20th Century-Fox. . Pinky was released in the United States on September 29, 1949, by 20th Century-Fox. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. rsqz ficdng dxojm fgbjn zllxa bltkgi tfmo ufn hfdc apuzde