Career
Sirkka died when she fell down a chimney. She was at a party with the rest of the cast and crew of Rikas tyttö, her third and last film, while shooting at the Aulanko Hotel in Hämeenlinna. The party had been her idea.
She and one of the men in the group went up to the roof of the hotel.
On the flat roof, there was a chimney several feet high, with a ladder leading up to the top. Sari mistook this chimney for a scenery balcony, climbed up, and fell down inside it into a heating boiler"s furnace, where she died instantly.
Because of Sari"s death, the end of the movie had to be altered. The crew shot further away, and so another woman had to replace Sari on these final shots.
