Nina S. Gore

Nina S. Olds (née Gore; July 25, 1903 – April 3, 1978)[1] was an American actress and socialite known for her three marriages, to Eugene Vidal, Hugh D. Auchincloss, and Robert Olds, as well as her children, authors Gore Vidal and Nina Auchincloss.

Senator Thomas Gore (1870–1949) and his wife Nina Belle Kay (1877–1963),[3] a Texas plantation owner's daughter.

[9][10] In 1940, Nina, an alternate delegate from Virginia to the Democratic convention announced her support of Wendell Willkie over Roosevelt.

Her son Gore referred to her as an alcoholic and "certifiably insane," as she likely suffered from bipolar disorder.

"[13]Gore was glamorous and has been described as a flighty mother with an apparent lack of maternal interest in her children.

[3] In 1922, Gore married Eugene Luther Vidal, an American commercial aviation pioneer.

[28] Robert died of pneumonia on April 28, 1943, after hospitalization for constrictive pericarditis and Libman-Sacks endocarditis,[29][30] at the age of 46, just before his son Robin Olds' graduation from West Point.

[31] Nina died on April 3, 1978, in New York City at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital after a long illness.