
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.

as Patricia "Pinky" Johnson

as Miss Em

as Dicey Johnson

as Dr. Thomas Adams

as Judge Walker

as Dr. Canady

as Rozelia

as Dr. Joe McGill

as Jake Walters

as Melba Wooley

as Judge Shoreham

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Boy (uncredited)

as Teejore (uncredited)

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Nurse (uncredited)

as Nurse (uncredited)

as Western Union Clerk (uncredited)

as Man (uncredited)

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Woman (uncredited)

as Loafer (uncredited)

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Woman (uncredited)

as Man (uncredited)

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Jeffers Wooley (uncredited)

as Mr. Goolby (uncredited)

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Police Chief Anderson (uncredited)

as Viola (Goolby's Saleslady) (uncredited)

as Boy (uncredited)

as Bailiff (uncredited)

as Man (uncredited)

as Girl (uncredited)

as Girl (uncredited)

as Man (uncredited)

as Man (uncredited)

as Loafer (uncredited)

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Intern (uncredited)

as George (Wooleys' Chauffeur) (uncredited)

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Nurse (uncredited)

as Police Officer (uncredited)

as Matron (uncredited)

as Mr. Stanley (Wooleys' Attorney) (uncredited)

as Woman (uncredited)

as Medical Director (uncredited)

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Baggage Man (uncredited)

as Woman (uncredited)

as Young Man (uncredited)

as Man (uncredited)

as Man (uncredited)