Frank Thompson (designer)

Frank L. Thompson (August 19, 1920, Shawnee, Oklahoma - June 4, 1977, Los Angeles, California) was an American costume designer for the stage and screen.

He also designed costumes for several Broadway musicals, including works by Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, and Richard Rodgers.

He also worked as assistant costume designer on several prominent productions of the 1940s and 1950s, including High Button Shoes (1947), Where's Charley?

[1] Outside of Broadway, Thompson spent five years working as a costume designer for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

[1] His last creations were for the American Ballet Theatre's celebrated 1976 production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker starring Mikhail Baryshnikov.