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

She was born in in 1924, and moved to London as a young woman. During the 1940s to 1950s, she was one of the of artists. The review of her works in a 1948 exhibition by 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 39th Academy Awards in the category of Best Costumes-Black and White for her work on the film Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment. Poor health led to an early end to her career as a designer, but she later taught costume design at the University of Southern California.

Rickards was married to Leonard Rosoman from 1963 until divorcing in 1970; the following year, she married . Her autobiography The Painted Banquet: My Life and Loves, was published in 1987 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and was praised thus by (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 , Surrey, on 7 July 2005, at the age of 80.


Selected filmography
  • From Russia with Love (1963)
  • (1966)
  • Mademoiselle (1966)
  • Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
  • The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967)
  • Ryan's Daughter (1970)
  • Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
  • Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)


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