- Lucinda Ballard
Lucinda Ballard (
April 3 1906 -June 19 1993 ) was an AmericanTony Award -winningcostume designer who worked primarily inBroadway theatre .Born Lucinda Davis Goldsborough in
New Orleans, Louisiana , Ballard studied at the Art Students League inNew York City . Her first professional credits was as the scenic and costume designer for a 1937 production of "As You Like It ". In 1945, she won the Donaldson Award for the costumes she designed for "I Remember Mama " [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7DD1230F933A1575BC0A965958260 "New York Times" obituary] ] . Two years later she was the first person to win theTony Award for Best Costume Design , an acknowledgement of her contributions to "Another Part of the Forest ", "Street Scene ", and "The Chocolate Soldier ", among others. Her second Tony was for the 1961 musical "The Gay Life ". Additional theatre credits include "Annie Get Your Gun ", "Allegro", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Flahooley ", "The Fourposter ", "Carnival in Flanders ", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ", "Orpheus Descending ", and "The Sound of Music ".Ballard designed only two films, "
Portrait of Jennie " and the 1951 screen adaptation of "A Streetcar Named Desire", for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.Ballard and her first husband, William F. R. Ballard, divorced in 1938 after eight years of marriage. In 1951, she married lyricist
Howard Dietz , and the couple resided inSands Point, New York until his death in 1983.Ballard died of
cancer at the age of 87 inLos Angeles .References
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