HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUCINDA BALLARD
(April 3, 1906 - August 19, 1993)

 Tony Award winning Costume Designer

Born Lucinda Davis Goldsborough in New Orleans, she studied at the Art Students League in New York (1923-1925), in France at the Sorbonne (1927-1929), the Beaux Arts Academy (1928-1930).

Her first professional credit was as the scenic and costume designer for a 1937 production of As You Like It.  The notices following the opening commended              her on her excellent use of color and period detail.
          She won the Donaldson Award for the costumes she designed in 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, The Glass Menagerie, among others.  Her second Tony was for the 1961 musical The Gay Life. Other theatre credits include The Fourposter, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending and The Sound of Music.

She designed only two films, Portrait of Jennie and the 1951 screen adaptation of A Streetcar Named 

  Desire for which she was nominated for an Oscar.

Her design for a revival of Show Boat