Pinky 1949 Elia Kazan trailer

Pinky 1949 Elia Kazan trailer

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[methogonzo]

"who found out too late"?

[trickmastermonkey]

just watched this earlier in my film class. Jeanne Crain is so beautiful in this role

[Ansem29201]

Hell the Jewish studio owners of the time did the same thing. Most changed their name and married Christians to better fit into white society. So of course they wouldn't want to anger the same society they were trying to fit into and further relationships with.

[Ansem29201]

Although I've seen both incarnations of "Imitation of life" I am just watching this film on Netflix. As a black woman I can understand the initial annoyance at early Hollywood's casting of whites to play mixed race characters. Yes it was stupid, but movies are a business. Yes there were plenty of black people that passed rather it was very much on purpose or through assumption and they probably wouldn't want to draw attention to themselves and bring hostility.

[0589marita]

Classic

[TheRiobezerko]

This looks like some cheesy Hollywood bs made to make white people feel good about themselves for tackling the "race issue." Give me a break! In 1949 blacks were still catching hell all over America.

[shapeshifta85]

They had to cast a white woman (not even a mixed race woman) due to the reaction of an onscreen interracial kiss at the time. It was probably even illegal hah

[kimrabb]

@CocoYogenFruz Ms. Horne spoke to us for an hour, she spoke about how the studios would us this pancake makeup to lighten her skin because that was the standard of beauty back then. She looks like so many Black people in my family, She was part of the Cotton Club, they hired light skinned Blacks only but make no mistake these were Black people, American Black people, we are all pretty much mixed.

[kimrabb]

@CocoYogenFruz In other words Lena Horne was like most of the African Americans, a mixture of Native American ( my mother is 3/4 native American) African American and European ( my father, like the majority of us Blacks has European blood in addition to being African American). I have met Ms, Horne when I was a kid at the NAACP convention, she was great and spoke of growing up Black in America.

[hjb103055]

@KittColby Lena Horne didn't look white and that's the whole point of the movie.

[KittColby]

Jeanne Crain did a wonderful job in the film, but I found it hypocritical to cast her in the title role. You're either going to challenge people on their prejudices or you're not. Hiring a white actress to play a black character was the latter.

Jeanne Crain gave an absolutely marvelous performance, but the role should have gone Lena Horne. It's still a wonderful picture, but its message misses its mark in compromising.

[TheLizzie12]

For 1949 this compelling film was very daring, only ten years after GWTW and three years after Uncle Remus in Song of the South. The cast are superb. I don't buy into the "Lena Horne was robbed" story (as much as I love Lena and saddened by the lack of starring opportunities, she couldn't have passed for white in this movie). Cast against type (Miss Girl-Next-Door), Jeanne Crain did a splendid job. Ethels Barrymore and Waters are GIANTS! Mr Newman's music score is brilliant!