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]

Plot

A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.

Cast

• Dick Powell as Peter Mason
• Anita Louise as Ellen Parker
• Allen Jenkins as "Droopy"
• Ronald Reagan as Jack Withering
• Walter Catlett as Franklin Dexter
• Harold Huber as Maxie Miller
• Larry Williams as Frank Kendall
• Thurston Hall as Col. Harvey Withering
• Minna Gombell as Cora Withering
• Joyce Compton as The Colonel's Mistress
• Robert Warwick as Walter Frome
• John Ridgely as Desk Clerk
• Joe Cunningham as Hotel Night Clerk
• Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as George
• George Reed as Withering's Butler
• Louis Armstrong as Gabriel the Trainer
• Maxine Sullivan as Specialty Singer
• unbilled players include Ward Bond and the Dandridge Sisters

Accolades

The song "Jeepers Creepers" was nominated for the American Film Institute list AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs.^[2]

Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren won an Oscar nomination for Best Song for "Jeepers Creepers". The song later would be sung in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), The Day of the Locust (1975), The Cheap Detective (1978) and the horror thriller Jeepers Creepers (2001).^[3]

See also

• List of films about horses
• List of films about horse racing

References

1. "AFI|Catalog".
2. "AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs Nominees" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-17. Retrieved 2016-07-30.
3. http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/3128/Going-Places/articles.html ^{[bare URL]}

External links

• Going Places at IMDb
• Going Places at the TCM Movie Database
• Going Places at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films