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

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. During the 1940s to 1950s Rickards was one of the Merioola Group of artists. The review of her works in a 1948 exhibition by

Paul Haefliger Paul Haefliger (8 February 1914 – March 1982) was an abstract painter, art critic, writer and printmaker. He was a major figures in the Sydney art world in the 1940s and 1950s and as art critic for '' Art in Australia'' and the ''Sydney Morn ...

was the source of the coined phrase "The Charm School" to describe these Sydney artists. In 1966 Rickards won a

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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''. 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".

Selected filmography

* '' From Russia with Love'' (1963) * '' Mademoiselle'' (1966) * '' Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment'' (1966) * '' The Sailor from Gibraltar'' (1967) * ''

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'' (1970) * ''

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'' (1971) * '' Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen'' (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 People from Melbourne Women costume designers