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Article: How Heather passed her scream test; answers to correspondents.(Column)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- January 13, 2001
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QUESTION What became of Heather O'Rourke, the American child actress who played Carol Ann in the 1981 supernatural thriller Poltergeist?
HEATHER was born on December 27, 1975, in San Diego, California.
Steven Spielberg, who was producing Poltergeist, spotted her while she was eating lunch at the MGM commissary with her sister, Tammy, and their mother.
Heather initially failed the screen test for Poltergeist when she laughed at, instead of being afraid of, a stuffed animal.
Spielberg, however, saw something in her and asked her to come back with a scary storybook.
He asked her to scream, which she did until she started to cry. ...