Neile Adams Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Neile Adams Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

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$.
Neile Adams Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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