‘Passing’ by Rebecca Hall, 2021 and ‘Pinky’ directed by Elia Kazan, 20th Century Fox, 1949: What a Difference 72 Years Make
“Slave built, slave run, and run down ever since,” says Pinky, played by Jeanne Craine as a white-looking Negress, when she returns “home” to the hot deep southern small town where her Granny lives in the 1949 film ‘Pinky’. She hates the mistress of the big house…Miss Em, played…
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9 min readOct 25, 2020
