In reference to Terry Smythe's request for the Joplin biopic:
There used to be a Scott Joplin biopic that aired annually on the
local public television station; it featured Eubie Blake playing the
(very elderly) bartender at the Maple Leaf Club in Sedalia MO.  If
this is the same film I, too, would be interested in obtaining a copy.

The scene in this film of Joplin and John Starck playing alternate
phrases of "Maple Leaf Rag" on a harpsichord and a piano is magical
(although I never could figure out why a harpsichord would be in a
music shop in a small town in Missouri in 1899).

Bryan Cather

 [ I love the end of the "cuttin' contest" when Eubie Blake, as
 [ the judge, signals the winner by overturning the losing pianist's
 [ beer mug!  Dick Hyman performed all the piano music for the movie
 [ sound track.  -- Robbie