Jules Goldstone

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Jules Conrad Goldstone (1900-80) was an entertainment attorney who took part in the early Hollywood anti-trust suits.

A native of Schenectady, NY, he attended the University of Michigan Law School. Goldstone was an early Hollywood agent, representing Elizabeth Taylor, director Clarence Brown and humorist James Thurber among others.

With his brothers, Charles and Nat Goldstone, he founded one of the earliest boutique Hollywood talent agencies (later the Goldstone & Tobias Agency). He went on to be involved in the production of the Emmy Award winning TV series, "My World & Welcome To It", based on the stories of The New Yorker writer & cartoonist, James Thurber and "The Court of Last Resort".

Goldstone was the father of writer and Emmy winning director, James Goldstone.