Rupert Pole (February 18, 1919 â€" July 15, 2006) was an American
actor and the husband of author Anaïs Nin, as well as her literary
executor.Pole was born in Los Angeles. His father, Reginald, was a
highly regarded Shakespearean actor. His parents divorced when he was
a boy, and his mother married Lloyd Wright, a son of noted architect
Frank Lloyd Wright. Pole played both the guitar and viola, and
received a degree in music from Harvard University in 1940. During
World War II he performed in USO shows with Jane Lloyd-Jones, to whom
he was briefly married.The Broadway run of The Duchess of Malfi, in
which Pole had a supporting role, had just ended in 1947 when he met
Nin. They met in an elevator as both were en route to a party given by
an heir to the Guggenheim fortune. He was 28 and she was 44 at the
time. In her diary entry that evening, Nin noted his emotional
sensitivity and knowledge of Eastern philosophies and concluded the
entry with "Danger! He is probably homosexual."Pole, who was under the
impression that Nin had divorced her first husband Hugh Parker Guiler,
asked Nin to accompany him to the West Coast. Nin agreed to do so, but
told Guiler she was accompanying a friend on a drive to Las Vegas.
actor and the husband of author Anaïs Nin, as well as her literary
executor.Pole was born in Los Angeles. His father, Reginald, was a
highly regarded Shakespearean actor. His parents divorced when he was
a boy, and his mother married Lloyd Wright, a son of noted architect
Frank Lloyd Wright. Pole played both the guitar and viola, and
received a degree in music from Harvard University in 1940. During
World War II he performed in USO shows with Jane Lloyd-Jones, to whom
he was briefly married.The Broadway run of The Duchess of Malfi, in
which Pole had a supporting role, had just ended in 1947 when he met
Nin. They met in an elevator as both were en route to a party given by
an heir to the Guggenheim fortune. He was 28 and she was 44 at the
time. In her diary entry that evening, Nin noted his emotional
sensitivity and knowledge of Eastern philosophies and concluded the
entry with "Danger! He is probably homosexual."Pole, who was under the
impression that Nin had divorced her first husband Hugh Parker Guiler,
asked Nin to accompany him to the West Coast. Nin agreed to do so, but
told Guiler she was accompanying a friend on a drive to Las Vegas.
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