Word: oursler
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Hollywood's big Biblical bonanza has a new claimant: 20th Century-Fox will epicram the New Testament into The Greatest Story Ever Told. To supervise this adaptation of the late Fulton Oursler's adaptation of the Gospels, no fewer than twelve religious advisers will be hired, including a Greek Orthodox, announced 20th Century's president, Greek Orthodox Spyros P. Skouras. And to fill the part of Jesus, a search is on for a handsome theological student who will promise to return to his studies after completing the movie assignment. Reported Variety: "Top thesps will be engaged...
Encouraged by The Robe, which has already grossed $25 million ("And may go to $60 million," say publicity flacks), 20th Century-Fox is producing two more: the late Fulton Oursler's The Greatest Story Ever Told (for which the studio is paying a cumulative $2,000,000, biggest movie sales tag in history), and a sequel to The Robe called Demetrius and the Gladiators. Others include The Big Fisherman (Columbia), The Galileans (Universal), The Story of Ruth and The Song of Songs (Charles Feldman), The Prodigal (M-G-M)-in which Lana Turner plays a priestess of Astarte...
...this question -particularly whenever a prominent U.S. citizen announces his conversion to the Catholic faith. Last week Dr. Poling, editor of the interdenominational Christian Herald (circ. 376,783), gave his readers the answer: a resounding yes. The Herald's estimates, summarized in a report by Author Will Oursler: as against 1,071,897 people converted to Catholicism during the last ten years (most of them presumably ex-Protestants), some 4,000,000 Roman Catholics have become Protestants...
...questionnaire (out of 25,000 polled) reported that they had received a total of 51,361 former Roman Catholics into their churches within the past ten years. Projecting his sample, Poling got a nationwide estimate of 4,144,366 Catholic-to-Protestant converts in a decade. Writes Episcopalian Will Oursler:* "Even when allowances are made for error, the total national figure could hardly be less than two or three million and in all probability runs closer to five million...
...Whose father, bestselling Author Fulton (The Greatest Story Ever Told) Oursler, became a Roman Catholic nine years before his death...