1. Neile Adams's half-sister was Maria Beatriz Arrastia y Reinares, mother of socialite Isabel Preysler, mother of Enrique Iglesias and Julio Iglesias Jr.
11 Facts About Neile Adams
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Neile Adams's mother, Carmen "Miami" Salvador, was a hula dancer of Spanish and German descent.
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Neile Adams later was wounded by shrapnel during the Allied liberation of the island.
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Neile Adams moved to the United States in 1948 and attended Rosemary Hall, a private school in Connecticut.
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Neile Adams then went to New York to study dancing where she got a scholarship at the Katherine Dunham School of Dance.
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Neile Adams was unable to accept because the Versailles Club would not release her from her contract as a dancer.
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Neile Adams performed in Broadway Bound at The Grand opposite Paul Muni.
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Neile Adams married then-struggling actor Steve McQueen four months after their meeting in 1956 while filming MGM's This Could Be the Night where she was under contract.
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Neile Adams met and married American film and television actor Steve McQueen in 1956.
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Neile Adams is the grandmother of actor Steven R McQueen.
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Neile Adams later married Alvin Toffel, a political campaign manager and president of the Norton Simon Museum; they were married until Toffel's death in 2005.