eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 7a483 PINKY 8 LCs '49 Elia Kazan directed, pretty Jeanne Crain, cool title card design! Date Sold 9/8/2009Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 8 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (11x14; LCs; measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Pinky, the 1949 Elia Kazan interracial romantic melodrama ("Does he know... Does he know... Does He Know..."; "...and Pinky knew that she was trapped... That her whole life had led up to this..."; "The poignant story of a girl who fell hopelessly, desperately in love"; "One loved her... One warned her... One taunted her..."; "This year... the picture is 'Pinky'"; "...she passed for white!"; "The best film of the year is Pinky"; "Based on a novel by Cid Ricketts Sumner"; "Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck"; about a light-skinned black African American girl who passes for white, and the complications that ensue; 20th Century Fox massively diluted the power of the story by casting a white actress in the lead role, and they were obviously scared of the subject matter, for the posters only make reference to it in an oblique way) starring Jeanne Crain (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; in the title role as Patricia "Pinky" Johnson), Ethel Barrymore (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), Ethel Waters (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), William Lundigan, Griff Barnett, and Frederick O'Neal (in his debut role). Note that John Ford directed a short amount of this film before being replaced by Elia Kazan, who claims to have re-shot all of Ford's material. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: fine. The lobby cards are in very nice condition! Learn More about condition grades
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