Joseph Sistrom
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Joseph Sistrom (1912–1966) was an American film producer who often collaborated with John Farrow.[1] He was the son of producer William Sistrom.[2]
Sistrom was the Paramount executive who drew Billy Wilder's attention to the novel Double Indemnity and suggested Raymond Chandler as Wilder's co writer on the script.[3] Sistrom was meant to be producer of Chandler's unfilmed script Playback.[4] He was also an enthusiast for the writing of Jonathan Latimer and helped Latimer start his screenwriting career.[5]
John Houseman, who produced Chandler's original script, The Blue Dahlia, under Sistrom's supervision, called Sistrom " a lively second-generation Hollywood movie man who, with his pink cheeks and his stiff, black golliwog hair, looked like a schoolboy of fourteen."[6]