Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.

• 20th Century Fox
• Jeanne Crain
• Ethel Barrymore
• Ethel Waters
• William Lundigan
• Basil Ruysdael
• Kenny Washington
• Nina Mae McKinney
• Griff Barnett