He was handed a pulpit before he could understand the price. Behind Marjoe Gortner’s astonishing rise from child preacher to Hollywood actor lay a childhood he would later expose on camera, stunning audiences around the world. Now, reports of his death at 82 bring a remarkable life back into focus—and reopen the story of a painful and hidden tru… Continues…
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