| Going Places | |
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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. 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 |
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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 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]