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Description: A light-skinned black woman falls in love with a white doctor, though he is unaware of her true race.

Cast:
Patricia 'Pinky' Johnson: Jeanne Crain
Miss Em: Ethel Barrymore
Dicey Johnson: Ethel Waters
Dr. Thomas Adams: William Lundigan
Judge Walker: Basil Ruysdael
Dr. Canady: Kenny Washington
Rozelia: Nina Mae McKinney
Dr. Joseph 'Doc Joe' McGill: Griff Barnett
Jake Walters: Frederick O'Neal
Melba Wooley: Evelyn Varden
Judge Shoreham: Raymond Greenleaf
Townsman: Harry Tenbrook
Boy: Wilfred Jackson
Minor Role: Jasper Weldon
Teejore: Rene Beard
Nurse: Tonya Overstreet
Western Union Clerk: Paul Brinegar
Loafer: Read Killgore
Jeffers Wooley: Everett Glass
Mr. Goolby: William Hansen
Police Chief Anderson: Arthur Hunnicutt
Viola - Goolby's Saleslady: Jean Inness
Bailiff: Frank Jaquet
Intern: Warren Mace
George - Wooleys' Chauffeur: Tiger Joe Marsh
Police Officer: Robert Osterloh
Matron: Ruth Rickaby
Mr. Stanley - Wooleys' Attorney: Dan Riss
Medical Director: George Spaulding
Baggage Man: Jim Toney

Written by: Cid Ricketts Sumner, Philip Dunne, Dudley Nichols

Director: Elia Kazan, John Ford

Production: 20th Century Fox

Release date: 01 Nov 1949

Box Office: $4,200,000