Going Places (1938 film)

Going Places
Film poster
Directed by	Ray Enright
Screenplay by	Sig Herzig Jerry Wald Maurice Leo Earl Baldwin
Based on	The Hottentot 1920 play by William Collier Sr. and Victor Mapes
Produced by	Jack L. Warner Hal B. Wallis
Starring	Dick Powell Anita Louise
Cinematography	Arthur L. Todd
Edited by	Clarence Kolster
Music by	Leo F. Forbstein
Production company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	December 31, 1938 (1938-12-31)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Going Places is a 1938 American musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright. Dick Powell plays a sporting goods salesman who is forced to pose as a famous horseman as part of his scheme to boost sales and gets entangled in his lies.

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "Jeepers Creepers", premiered in this movie by Louis Armstrong, who sings it to a horse.

Two earlier films, both entitled The Hottentot (1929) and The Hottentot (1922 silent version), were based on the same source.^[1]