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Auburn-haired, green-eyed, convent-educated Jacqueline Beer succeeded Christiane Martel as Miss France in 1954. Like her predecessor, she travelled to Long Beach, California, to compete for the Miss Universe title. Jacqueline didn't win, but picked up a two-year Paramount studio contract as a consolation prize. A reluctant starlet, she was quoted in an interview, saying "people in the movie and television business think that if you're a beauty contest winner you cannot be a good actress". This view of prevailing attitudes was borne out by her subsequent film assignments which amounted to a succession of stereotypical mademoiselles in films like Screaming Eagles (1956) and Pillow Talk (1959). The Hitchcockian thriller The Prize (1963) saw her in a small role as the mistress of a chemistry laureate.

Better served on the small screen, she had a few solid guest roles in Maverick (1957), Bronco (1958), The Rogues (1964), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), Daniel Boone (1964), among other shows, but became ultimately best known for her regular stint as switchboard o

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Jacqueline Beer

French actress (born 1932)

Jacqueline Beer
Beer in 1962
Born	Jacqueline Vangramberg (1932-10-14) 14 October 1932 (age 92) Paris, France
Other names	Jacqueline Baer
Occupation	Actress
Spouses	Jean Antoine Garcia Roady (1955–19??) Thor Heyerdahl (m. 1991; died 2002)
Children	3
Beauty pageant titleholder
Title	Miss France 1954
Years active	1955–1979
Major competition(s)	Miss France 1954 (Winner) Miss Universe 1954 (Top 16)

Jacqueline Beer (born Jacqueline Vangramberg; 14 October 1932)^[1] is a French actress and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss France 1954 and represented her country at Miss Universe 1954 where she placed Top 16.^[2] She was Chair of the Board of Directors of the Thor Heyerdahl Institute, located in Larvik, Norway. Her second husband was scientist Thor Heyerdahl. She was sometimes credited as Jacqueline Baer.

Early years

Beer's father was "a well-known writer and owner

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Jacqueline Beer

Actress, Jacqueline Beer, was born on Oct 14, 1932 in Paris, France. As of December 2024, Jacqueline Beer was 92 years old.

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Crowned Miss France in 1954, Jacqueline Beer made her television debut in 1955 playing a nightclub mind reader named 'Yvette' in The People's Choice TV episode called 'Sock Plays Cupid.' Over the course of her 16-year television and film career, she appeared in 27 roles, most notably as 'Yvette' in Pillow Talk (1959), Monique Souvir in The Prize (1963), another 'Yvette' on TV's The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1956-1957), and as switchboard operator 'Suzanne Fabray' in the television series Sunset Strip (1958-1963). In 1991, she married noted Norwegian ethnographer and documentary film director/producer, Thor Heyerdahl. They remained married until his death in 2002.

(Source: article by Annmarie Gatti for Classic Movie Hub).

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