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"No wonder my husband thinks your ideas are too advanced," she tells him on the surface she seems to refer to the drawings but the underlying meaning is clear: his romantic advances are unwelcome. John says that he is too busy to take his wife to lunch, so she prevails on Harold to escort her at lunch she is impressed by the sketches of modern furniture but draws her hand away coolly when Harold gently places his hand on top of hers. Vera is played by Leora Dana, born in 1923 and attractive the actress is 26 years younger than the actor playing her husband and twelve years younger than the actor playing his junior partner. Brown refuses, determined to stick to doing things the old-fashioned way, since this has always been profitable.Ī love triangle requires a third person, so Vera Brown enters the office, hoping to have lunch with her husband John. Skinner is a junior partner in the company and, as the show opens, he is showing Brown drawings of modern furniture that he thinks the company should manufacture and sell. His rival is Harold Skinner, played by Hugh Marlowe, born in 1911 and thus about 14 years younger than Collins. Brown is played by Russell Collins, who was born in 1897, making him almost 59 years old when this episode was filmed in the summer or fall of 1956.

John Brown is the owner of John Brown and Company, a furniture manufacturer that has had years of success making and selling good quality furniture. In the opening scene of "John Brown's Body," two businessmen discuss furniture in a contemporary office setting and, with this episode, Alfred Hitchcock Presents suddenly looks much more modern than it did during its first season the story is set in present day (1956) and concerns a battle waged between a crafty, older man and his ambitious young rival.