Jeanne Crain, the winsome beauty who starred in lightweight 1940s romances and comedies such as ” Margie ” and ” Apartment for Peggy ” and won an Academy Award nomination as the black girl passing for ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Jeanne Crain credited her mother for bringing her up in a household free of prejudice. As a Hollywood star, she won an Oscar nomination for a role that broke racial taboos of the ...

Jeanne Crain, 78, an ingenue of 1940s films who was often dismissed as a "glamorous mannequin" until impressing critics as a black woman passing for white in "Pinky" and a socially insecure spouse in ...

Jeanne Crain’s ascent to movie stardom in the 1940s had all the earmarks of the classic local-girl-becomes-Hollywood-star story. Her parents, George Crain and Loretta Carr, met while he was a ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. A black and white film still from the film Pinky. The image depicts a scene of a police officer standing next to a woman who has hiked up her dress to reveal a small dagger ...

Jeanne Crain, who essayed winsome roles before landing an Oscar nom in the controversial drama “Pinky,” died Sunday, Dec. 14, in Santa Barbara of a heart attack. She was 78. Barstow, Calif., native ...