Nina Mae McKinney

Acting

Nina Mae McKinney

Born 1912-06-12 Lancaster, South Carolina, USA 25 films

Nina Mae McKinney (June 12, 1912 – May 3, 1967) was an American actress who worked internationally during the 1930s and in the postwar period in theatre, film and television, after beginning her career on Broadway and in Hollywood. Dubbed "The Black Garbo" in Europe because of her striking beauty, McKinney was both one of the first African-American film stars in the United States and one of the first African-Americans to appear on British television.

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Filmography

25 films
Copper Canyon poster

A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy La…

Copper Canyon

★ 5.7 1950

Pinky poster

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduatin…

Pinky

★ 7.1 1949

Together Again poster

Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for…

Together Again

★ 5.5 1944

Dark Waters poster

Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover…

Dark Waters

★ 6.0 1944

Gang Smashers poster

An undercover police woman poses as a nighclub entertainer to catch the main man behind the rackete…

Gang Smashers

★ 9.0 1938