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Marcia Lucas, Star Wars’ Oscar-winning editor and unsung hero, dies at 80
‘Innovative artist’, who was married to George Lucas until 1983 and worked on several Martin Scorsese films, has died from metastatic cancer Marcia Lucas, who won an Oscar as editor of the 1977 film Star Wars and was part of a group of pioneering female editors who were essential to film’s New Hollywood era, has died aged 80. Lucas, who was married to the Star Wars creator, George Lucas, from 1969 to 1983, died on Wednesday from metastatic cancer, her attorney Deidre Von Rock said in an email to the Associated Press. Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Marcia Lucas, Star Wars’ Oscar-winning editor and unsung hero, dies at 80, ‘Innovative artist’, who was married to George Lucas until 1983 and worked on several Martin Scorsese films, has died from metastatic cancer Marcia Lucas, who won an Oscar as editor of the 1977 film Star Wars and was part of a group of pioneering female editors who were essential to film’s New Hollywood era, has died aged 80. Lucas, who was married to the Star Wars creator, George Lucas, from 1969 to 1983, died on Wednesday from metastatic cancer, her attorney Deidre Von Rock said in an email to the Associated Press. Continue reading…
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- Marcia Lucas, Star Wars’ Oscar-winning editor and unsung hero, dies at 80The Guardian - 2026-06-01T01:52:32+00:00
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