Jocelyn Rickards (29 July 19247 July 2005) was an Australian artist and

costume designer A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television show. The role of the costume designer is to create the characters' outfits or costumes and balance the scenes with texture and colour, etc. The costum ...

. She was born in

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in 1924, and moved to London as a young woman. During the 1940s to 1950s, she was one of the

Merioola Group The Merioola Group, also known as the Sydney Charm School, was a group of Australian artists active in Sydney during the 1940s and early 1950s. The group was named after ''Merioola'', a Woollahra mansion where many of its members lived. Meriool ...

of artists. The review of her works in a 1948 exhibition by

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was the source of the coined phrase "The Charm School" to describe these Sydney artists. In 1966 Rickards won a BAFTA Film Award for the film '' Mademoiselle''. In 1967 she was nominated at the

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in the category of Best Costumes-Black and White for her work on the film ''

Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment ''Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment'' (also called ''Morgan!'') is a 1966 British comedy film directed by Karel Reisz and starring David Warner (actor), David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, and Robert Stephens, with Irene Handl and Bernard Br ...

''. Poor health led to an early end to her career as a designer, but she later taught costume design at the

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. Rickards was married to Leonard Rosoman from 1963 until divorcing in 1970; the following year, she married

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. Her autobiography ''The Painted Banquet: My Life and Loves'', was published in 1987 by

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, and was praised thus by

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(a former lover of hers): "An outstanding capacity for friendship - rare in the jealous world of art and letters to which she belongs - makes Jocelyn Rickard's autobiography unusually appealing". Rickards died from pneumonia at a care home in

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, Surrey, on 7 July 2005, at the age of 80.

Selected filmography

* '' From Russia with Love'' (1963) * ''

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'' (1966) * '' Mademoiselle'' (1966) * ''

'' (1966) * ''

The Sailor from Gibraltar ''The Sailor from Gibraltar'' is a 1967 British romantic drama, romantic drama film directed by Tony Richardson and starring Jeanne Moreau, Ian Bannen, Vanessa Redgrave, Hugh Griffith and Orson Welles. Based on the novel ''Le Marin de Gibraltar' ...

'' (1967) * ''

Ryan's Daughter ''Ryan's Daughter'' is a 1970 British epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean and written by Robert Bolt. Loosely inspired by Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel ''Madame Bovary'', the film stars Robert Mitchum and Sarah Miles as a married ...

'' (1970) * ''

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'' (1971) * ''

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen ''Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen'' is a 1981 comedy–mystery film directed by Clive Donner that stars Peter Ustinov, Angie Dickinson and Lee Grant. It is the last film to feature the titular character. Plot Retired detective Cha ...

'' (1981)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rickards, Jocelyn 1924 births 2005 deaths Australian costume designers Best Costume Design BAFTA Award winners Deaths from pneumonia in England Australian expatriates in England Australian expatriates in the United States Designers from Melbourne University of Southern California faculty Australian women costume designers British costume designers British women costume designers