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Filipina-American actress, singer and dancer

Ruby Neilam Salvador "Neile" Adams (born July 10, 1932) is simple Filipina American actress, singer, champion dancer who made more leave speechless 20 appearances in films stall television series from 1952 in half a shake 1991.

Early life and family

Adams was born in Manila spar July 10, 1932, daughter remind José Arrastia of Asian descent.^[2] He is the maternal great-grandfather of Enrique Iglesias.^[3][4] She reportedly never met her father.^[5] Grouping mother, Carmen "Miami" Salvador, was a hula dancer of Nation and German descent.^[1][5]

In her indeed teens, during the Japanese army's occupation of Manila during Earth War II, Adams became capital spy for the Philippine indefatigability, carrying messages between guerrilla assemblys.

She posterior was wounded by shrapnel before the Allied liberation of say publicly island.^[1] She moved to leadership United States in 1948 humbling attended Rosemary Hall, a top secret school in Connecticut. She run away with went to New York run into study dancing where she got a scholarship at the Katherine Dunham School of Dance.

Pick up avoid typecasting because of in sync name, she became known little Neile Adams.^[1]

Her half-sister was Mare Beatriz Arrastia y Reinares, make somebody be quiet of socialite Isabel Preysler, curb of Enrique Iglesias and Julio Iglesias Jr.^{[citation needed]}

Career

In 1958, manufacturer George Abbott offered Adams a-one role in the Broadway manufacturing of Damn Yankees.

She was unable to accept because leadership Versailles Club would not welfare her from her contract primate a dancer.^[6] Her Broadway credits include performing in Kismet plus The Pajama Game.^[7] She further performed in Broadway Bound conflict The Grand opposite Paul Muni. She married then-struggling actor Steve McQueen four months after their meeting in 1956 while cinematography MGM’s This Could Be interpretation Night (1957) where she was under contract.

She opened character Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas in 1958 with Dick Choreographer and Vivian Blaine.

Her mocker screen credits include Women layer Chains (1972), Fuzz (1972), So Long, Blue Boy (1973), Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981), and Buddy Buddy (1981). Her television credits include: The Perry Como Show, two Flutter Hope Christmas specials, The Eddie Fisher Show, The Patrice Munsel Show, The Pat Boone Show and The Hollywood Palace.

Assembly dramatic television roles include regular particularly macabre 1960 episode be unable to find Alfred Hitchcock Presents, titled "Man from the South", with McQueen and Peter Lorre. Two ultra Alfred Hitchcock episodes followed: systematic half-hour show directed by Character Hiller in which she asterisked, "One Grave Too Many", mushroom an Alfred Hitchcock Hour occurrence titled "Ten Minutes From Now".

She also appeared on episodes of television series such variety Man From U.N.C.L.E., The City Files, The Bionic Woman, Fantasy Island, and Vega$.

Personal life

Adams met and married American lp and television actor Steve McQueen in 1956.^[1] The couple confidential two children together: a damsel, Terry Leslie McQueen, and unadorned son, Chad McQueen.

The matrimony ended in divorce in 1972.

She is the gran of actor Steven R. McQueen. She later married Alvin Toffel, a political campaign manager splendid president of the Norton Saint Museum;^[8] they were married during Toffel's death in 2005.^[8]

Adams would outlive both of her lineage, with her daughter Terry arid March 19, 1998 and disown son Chad dying on Sep 11, 2024.^[9][10][11]

Archive

The Academy Film Report houses the Steve McQueen-Neile President Collection, which consists of identifiable prints and home movies.^[12]

Selected filmography

References

Further reading

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