Where is child star Heather O Rourke buried?
Heather O’Rourke was interred in the outer wall of the “Sanctuary Of Tenderness” mausoleum at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Her tomb is nearby to those of Truman Capote, Mel Torme and Dominique Dunne, who played her sister in Poltergeist. Heather O’Rourke was an American child actress who starred in the Poltergeist movie trilogy. Born Heather Michele O’Rourke in San Diego, California, she was discovered in the summer of 1980 by Steven Spielberg while having lunch at the MGM Studios Commissary with her mother and older sister Tammy O’Rourke, a dancer in the film Pennies From Heaven. Spielberg, who was preparing to film E.T., was also looking for a child to play the role of Carol-Anne Freeling in his upcoming production of Poltergeist. He originally thought that she was too young for the part but after an interview and a “scream test,” he cast her in the role. Poltergeist was released in June 1982, and O’Rourke’s line, “They’re he-eer
Despite surviving emergency surgery, she died of complications caused primarily by septic shock resulting from the obstruction and ensuing infection. MGM decided to re-shoot the ending of Poltergeist III in March 1988 using a body double stand-in. The director of the film, Gary Sherman, claims the ending was not a re-shoot, and that O’Rourke died “before they could film the original ending.” However, his claim is unsubstantiated, as the finished film was rated “PG” by the MPAA in November 1987, before O’Rourke died. Heather O’Rourke was interred in the outer wall of the “Sanctuary Of Tenderness” mausoleum at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Her tomb is nearby to those of Truman Capote, Mel Torme and Dominique Dunne, who played her sister in Poltergeist. Sources: http://www.hollywoodusa.co.uk/WestwoodObituaries/heathero’rourke.
