[3] Soon after winning the Miss France contest, Beer signed a contract with Paramount Pictures.

[4] Her American film debut came in 1956 when she had an uncredited role as a model in Bob Hope comedy That Certain Feeling.

She is best remembered today for her five-year role as Suzanne Fabray, nicknamed "Frenchy," the charming and efficient switchboard operator (and occasional operative) on the classic private eye TV series 77 Sunset Strip[8] starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Beer married Jean Antoine Garcia Roady, an accountant, on November 26, 1955.

[10] In 1991, Beer married ethnographer and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl, whom she met in Güímar, on the Spanish island of Tenerife.

After he died in 2002, she remained active in the Thor Heyerdahl Research Centre in Aylesbury, UK, and is Chair of the Board of Directors.