Lucinda Ballard

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Lucinda Ballard (born April 3, 1906 in New Orleans , Louisiana as Lucinda Davis Goldsborough , † August 19, 1993 in New York ) was an American costume designer . Ballard has received several awards for her costumes designed for film and theater.

Life

Ballard was born in New Orleans in 1906 to Richard and Anna Goldsborough. After attending Miss McGehee's School , she attended lectures at the Art Students League in New York and went to Paris for some time to study there. In 1937 she got her first engagement and designed the costumes and set design for a production of William Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Ritz Theater in New York. In 1945 her work at the theater was awarded for the first time. For the costumes, staged by secret of the mother in the Music Box Theater on Broadway of her was Donaldson Award awarded. Two years later she received the Tony Award , which she won again in 1962. In 1951 Ballard, who otherwise mainly worked at the theater, designed the costumes for Endstation Sehnsucht and was nominated for an Academy Award at the 1952 Academy Awards.

Ballard was married twice. In 1930 she married William FR Ballard, the marriage, which resulted in a son, divorced eight years later. From 1951 until his death in 1983 Ballard was married to the songwriter and librettist Howard Dietz . Ballard died of cancer in New York in 1993 at the age of 87.

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SURNAME Ballard, Lucinda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldsborough, Lucinda Davis (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans , Louisiana , United States
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 1993
Place of death New York , United States