The Men

Marlon Brando made his on-screen acting debut in the 1950 movie, "The Men", directed by Fred Zinnemann, telling the story of a World War II lieutenant, Ken Wilcheck, who is seriously injured in combat and the struggles he faces trying to re-enter society as a paraplegic confined to a wheel chair.

During the filming, Marlon would frequent the company and hang out with real paraplegic men in order to better understand the role he was playing, sometimes even going out to a bar for drinks with his new-found friends, oftentimes doing so in his wheel chair.  On one occasion, an apparent Christian woman, thinking he was really paralyzed, said a healing prayer over Marlon, who then promptly rose to his feet and ran around the bar, yelling, "it's a miracle!"  The women was purportedly shocked at the 'miracle' she thought she had performed.