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.
| Writing | Philip Dunne | Screenplay |
| Camera | Joseph MacDonald | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Cid Ricketts Sumner | Novel |
| Editing | Harmon Jones | Editor |
| Directing | Elia Kazan | Director |
| Writing | Dudley Nichols | Screenplay |
| Production | Darryl F. Zanuck | Producer |
| Art | Thomas Little | Set Decoration |
| Art | J. Russell Spencer | Art Direction |
| Art | Walter M. Scott | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ben Nye | Makeup Artist |
| Art | Lyle R. Wheeler | Art Direction |
| Sound | Alfred Newman | Original Music Composer |
| Crew | Elia Kazan | Additional Writing |
| Sound | Edward B. Powell | Orchestrator |
| Sound | Eugene Grossman | Sound |
| Sound | Roger Heman Sr. | Sound |
| Crew | Fred Sersen | Special Effects |
