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Paul Newman had never held a pool cue before he landed the role of Fast Eddie Felson.
He took out the dining room table from his home and installed a pool table so he could spend every waking hour practicing and polishing up his skills.
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All the pool shots in the movie are performed by the actors themselves (Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason) except one.
When first approached to play the role of Fast Eddie Felsen, Paul Newman couldn't accept it because he was scheduled to begin filming
Two for the Seesaw with Elizabeth Taylor. When Taylor was held up with the filming of Cleopatra, "Seesaw" was postponed and Paul was able to do this film.
While at the Kentucky Derby, the race announcer lists some of the horses racing. One of the horses named is "Stroke of Luck".
"Stroke of Luck" was one of the titles considered for the film as a result of studio fears that the title "The Hustler" would create negative connotations with prostitution.
Boxer Jake LaMotta appears as as one of the many bartenders in the film. His one line is "Check," and he says it three times.
The film crew built a dining area that was so realistic that people showed up expecting to have their orders taken.
Rossen hired real street thugs and enrolled them in the Screen Actors Guild so that they could be used as extras.
Jackie Gleason was in reality a very good pool player and did many of his own shots in the film.
According to editor Dede Allen, an entire scene from this film was omitted after much deliberation between Allen and her director Robert Rossen.
Even though both agreed that the scene, an impassioned speech by Paul Newman in the pool room, was possibly the best part of his entire performance, they had to throw it out because "...it didn't move the story."
Newman, though Oscar-nominated, later claimed that the deleted scene most likely cost him the Academy Award.