Lucinda Ballard
Theater Designer
1906 – 1993
Who was Lucinda Ballard?
Lucinda Ballard was an American costume designer who worked primarily in Broadway theatre.
Born Lucinda Davis Goldsborough in New Orleans, Louisiana, Ballard studied at the Art Students League in New 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. Two years later she was the first person to win the Tony 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 Fitz Randolph Ballard, divorced in 1938 after eight years of marriage. They had two children, Robert F. R. Ballard and Lucinda Jenifer Ballard Ramberg. In 1951, she married lyricist Howard Dietz, and the couple resided in Sands Point, New York until his death in 1983.
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- Born
- Apr 3, 1906
New Orleans - Also known as
- Lucinda Davis Goldsborough
- Spouses
- Howard Dietz
(1951 - 1983/07/30) - William Fitz Randolph Ballard
( - 1938)
- Howard Dietz
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Art Students League of New York
- Lived in
- Los Angeles County
- Died
- Aug 19, 1993
New York City
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on July 23, 2013
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