The film heavily utilized composer Scott Joplin's turn-of-the-century Ragtime music throughout even though the action takes place in the 1930s - many years after the Ragtime trend had been popular. George Roy Hill felt that despite the musical anachronism, the lightness of Joplin's music perfectly captured the playful tone of the story. It has been written that this film was instrumental in Joplin being awarded a special Arts Pulitzer Prize in 1976 - only the third ever awarded in that category up to that time. The popularity of this film and its music also spurred the making of Scott Joplin (1977), also from Universal.

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