Ruby Neilam Salvador Adams (born 1934), known professionally as Neile
Adams, is a Filipino-American actress, singer, and dancer who made
more than 20 appearances in films and television series between 1952
and 1991.Adams was born in Manila in 1934, the illegitimate daughter
of José Arrastia, the maternal great-grandfather of Enrique Iglesias.
She reportedly never met her father. Her mother, Carmen "Miami"
Salvador, was a hula dancer of Spanish and German descent. In her
early teens, during the Japanese army's occupation of Manila during
World War II, she became a spy for the Philippine resistance, carrying
messages between guerrilla groups. She was later wounded by shrapnel
during the Allied liberation of the island. She came to the United
States in 1948 and attended Rosemary Hall, a private school in
Connecticut. She then went to New York to study dancing where she got
a scholarship at the Katherine Dunham School of Dance. To avoid
typecasting because of her name, she became known as Neile Adams.In
1958, producer George Abbott offered Adams a role in the Broadway
production of Damn Yankees. She was unable to accept because the
Versailles Club would release her from her contract as a dancer. Her
Broadway credits include performing in Kismet and Pajama Game. She
also performed in Broadway-bound At The Grand opposite Paul Muni. She
married then-struggling actor Steve McQueen four months after their
meeting in 1956 while filming MGM’s This Could Be the Night (1957)
where she was under contract. Adams opened the Tropicana Hotel in Las
Vegas in 1958 with Dick Shawn and Vivian Blaine.Her other screen
credits include Women in 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 Bob Hope
Christmas specials, The Eddie Fisher Show, The Patrice Munsel Show,
The Pat Boone Show and The Hollywood Palace. Her dramatic television
roles include a 1960 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, titled "Man
from the South", opposite her husband and Peter Lorre. Two more Alfred
Hitchcock episodes followed: a half-hour show directed by Arthur
Hiller in which she starred, "One Grave Too Many", and an Alfred
Hitchcock Hour episode entitled "Ten Minutes From Now". She also
appeared on episodes of such television series as Man From U.N.C.L.E.,
The Rockford Files, The Bionic Woman, Fantasy Island, and Vega$.
Adams, is a Filipino-American actress, singer, and dancer who made
more than 20 appearances in films and television series between 1952
and 1991.Adams was born in Manila in 1934, the illegitimate daughter
of José Arrastia, the maternal great-grandfather of Enrique Iglesias.
She reportedly never met her father. Her mother, Carmen "Miami"
Salvador, was a hula dancer of Spanish and German descent. In her
early teens, during the Japanese army's occupation of Manila during
World War II, she became a spy for the Philippine resistance, carrying
messages between guerrilla groups. She was later wounded by shrapnel
during the Allied liberation of the island. She came to the United
States in 1948 and attended Rosemary Hall, a private school in
Connecticut. She then went to New York to study dancing where she got
a scholarship at the Katherine Dunham School of Dance. To avoid
typecasting because of her name, she became known as Neile Adams.In
1958, producer George Abbott offered Adams a role in the Broadway
production of Damn Yankees. She was unable to accept because the
Versailles Club would release her from her contract as a dancer. Her
Broadway credits include performing in Kismet and Pajama Game. She
also performed in Broadway-bound At The Grand opposite Paul Muni. She
married then-struggling actor Steve McQueen four months after their
meeting in 1956 while filming MGM’s This Could Be the Night (1957)
where she was under contract. Adams opened the Tropicana Hotel in Las
Vegas in 1958 with Dick Shawn and Vivian Blaine.Her other screen
credits include Women in 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 Bob Hope
Christmas specials, The Eddie Fisher Show, The Patrice Munsel Show,
The Pat Boone Show and The Hollywood Palace. Her dramatic television
roles include a 1960 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, titled "Man
from the South", opposite her husband and Peter Lorre. Two more Alfred
Hitchcock episodes followed: a half-hour show directed by Arthur
Hiller in which she starred, "One Grave Too Many", and an Alfred
Hitchcock Hour episode entitled "Ten Minutes From Now". She also
appeared on episodes of such television series as Man From U.N.C.L.E.,
The Rockford Files, The Bionic Woman, Fantasy Island, and Vega$.
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