Jules C. Stein

Jules C. Stein (April 26, 1896 – April 29, 1981) was an American physician and businessman who co-founded Music Corporation of America (MCA).

Early life and education Stein was born in South Bend, Indiana, to Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, one of six children (three boys and three girls) of Louis Stein, a dry goods store owner, and Rosa Cohen (née Kahanaski). In 1915, he graduated

Philanthropy Jules Stein and his wife Doris founded the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA in the 1960s. They had two children: Alexandra Elizabeth Shiva, and Andrew Shiva Ph.D., who founded the National Currency Foundation.

Stein owned Misty Mountain, a Wallace Neff designed house on Angelo Drive, Beverly Hills. Stein bought the house in 1940; it was sold after his death to Rupert Murdoch. Jean Stein wrote of her upbringing in the house and her parents' parties there in her 2016 memoir West of Eden.

Jules Stein died in Los Angeles, aged 85, in 1981. His widow, Doris J. Stein, later founded the Doris J. Stein Foundation in Beverly Hills, California. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.