Marjoe Gortner: From Child Preacher to Oscar-Winning Exposé

Ordained at four, Marjoe Gortner became a world-famous toddler evangelist, trained through abuse by his parents to preach for offerings on the revival circuit.This episode traces his abandonment after his father vanished with the family fortune, his return as a whistleblower in the 1972 documentary Marjoe, and his later Hollywood career playing villains.The manufactured Marjoe name and a fabricated divine-vision origin storyAn estimated three million dollars raised across the revival circuitThe 1971 sting documentary exposing the mechanics of the griftWinning the Academy Award for Best Documentary FeatureFilm roles in Earthquake and other 1970s B-movies