Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broadway's 26-year-old Marlon Brando spent his first four weeks in Hollywood learning to live in a wheelchair with 31 paraplegics in a veterans' hospital ward. By the time shooting started on The Men, intense, moody Actor Brando knew, as well as any whole man could, how it feels to be paralyzed from the waist down...
...giving people pain. He hits O'Brien in his poisoned stomach and then chuckles, "he's soft in the belly, can't take it in the belly," and then Chester punches him again. Reminiscent of Richard Widmark in his earliest performance (when he tied an old woman to her wheelchair and pushed her down the stairs), Neville Brand gives the most polished performance of the picture...
That craftsmanly joy in painting kept him working to the end, propped up in a wheelchair with a brush strapped to his arthritic fingers. Last week Manhattan gallerygoers could see the result of those last pain-racked hours: healthy, big-hipped servant girls looking as flushed and happy as if they had just stepped out of a steam bath...
...lonely life. His wife, who had been in a nursing home since 1930, died three years ago. Since the war, Eliot has shared a flat in artistic Chelsea with his good friend, Writer-Critic John Hayward (brilliant, witty Hayward, almost completely paralyzed, manages to get about London in a wheelchair). Eliot has the simple but expensive habits of an English gentleman (although English gentlemen usually consider him a typically American gentleman). He dresses well, likes claret and good cheese. As a church warden at St. Stephen's in Kensington he performs his duties conscientiously...