Pinky (1949) Starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Waters, Ethel Barrymore, William Lundigan, Frederick O'Neal, and Nina Mae McKinney Pinky, a young nurse (Jeanne Crain), returns to her small southern hometown, but the trip is a bittersweet one: Educated in the North, Pinky is engaged to a doctor that doesn't know she is part Black. Her grandmother (Ethel Waters) is a proud Black woman who is less than happy to learn that Pinky's fiance is white. Then, Pinky's friendship with a southern aristocrat (Ethel