Going Places (1938 film)
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| Directed by | Ray Enright |
| Screenplay by | Sig Herzig Jerry Wald Maurice Leo Earl Baldwin |
| Based on | The Hottentot 1920 play by William Collier Sr. 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 |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Going Places is a 1938 American musical comedy film starring Dick Powell and Anita Louise, and directed by Ray Enright. Powell plays a sporting goods salesman who is forced to pose as a famous horseman as part of his scheme to boost sales, ending up entangled in lies and having to ride a bucking horse in a steeplechase championship.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Jeepers Creepers", premiered by Louis Armstrong, who sings and plays it to a horse.
Two earlier films, both entitled The Hottentot (1929) and The Hottentot (1922 silent version), were based on the same source.