Oscar-winning ‘Star Wars’ editor dies at 80 after cancer battle

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Marcia Lucas, wife of director George Lucas, right, carries her Oscar statuette as they arrive at a post Academy Awards party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, April 4, 1978. A lawyer for her family says she passed away Wednesday from metastatic cancer in Rancho Mirage, California. She was 80. (AP Photo, File)

Marcia Lucas, who won an Oscar as editor of the original 1977 “Star Wars” and was part of a group of women whose editing was essential to film’s New Hollywood era, has died, a lawyer for her family said Friday. She was 80.

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