Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream 
by Joan Didion

“Here,” wrote Didion, “is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else, for all those who drifted away from the cold and the past and the old ways. Here is where they are trying to find a new life style, trying to find it in the only places they know to look: the movies and the newspapers.

The case of Lucille Marie Maxwell Miller is a tabloid monument to that new life style.” Lucille Miller renounces her small life for a bigger life and lands in the Southern California valley, and along the way succumbs to the voices of temptation; full of illusions, “in search of something she had seen in a movie or heard on the radio,” she craves love and glamour but winds up yielding to lust and desperation . . . "

Part One   (24 min. at normal speed)
Part Two   (22 min. at normal speed)