Fully Dressed and In His Right Mind

FULLY DRESSED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND

Johnny Price first meets the little old man at the scene of a streetside murder. The little man confesses that it was he who shot the man, and Johnny figures he’s either drunk or crazy, and walks away. He stops in at a bar, and there’s the little old man again. Johnny starts running into him everywhere. He can’t shake him. When Johnny meets the artist Dorgan and invites him to move in with him, Dorgan is intrigued by the little old man as well, and wants to paint him.

Johnny’s life becomes further complicated when one night he sees a naked young lady swimming in a lake in the park. He tries to talk to her, but she dives back in and swims away. But Johnny persists, and eventually discovers that her name is Trelia, and that she swims naked in the lake most every night. Dorgan wants to paint her too.

But the little old man has plans for Johnny, and neither Dorgan nor Trelia can help him. Because once the little old man casts his green eyes on Johnny, he might as well give up hope!

Michael Fessier was born November 6, 1905, in Angels Camp, California. At 13 he began his newspaper career as a printer’s devil for the Bakersfield Californian, working his way to reporter for various papers until he began writing for the pulps. Fessier quit his position as editor of the San Rafael Independent Journal when Hollywood offered him a job as a screenwriter. He wrote over 200 short stories and 29 screenplays―including You’ll Never Get Rich and You Were Never Lovlier with Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth―but only two novels. In 1961, he married British actress Lilian Bond. Later in his career he wrote for television shows such as Bonanza, Lost in Space, Mister Ed, Gilligan’s Island, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Fessier died on September 19, 1988, in Northridge, Los Angeles.