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 ...

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 ...