Going Places (1938)
1h 24m
Running Time
December 31, 1938Release Date
Going Places (1938)
1h 24m
Running Time
December 31, 1938Release Date
Plot.
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Dick Powell
Peter Mason
Louis Armstrong
Gabe
Anita Louise
Ellen Parker
Allen Jenkins
Droopy
Ronald Reagan
Jack Withering
Ray Enright
Director
Walter Catlett
Franklin Dexter
Sig Herzig
Writer
Harold Huber
Maxie
Jerry Wald
Writer
Larry Williams
Frank
Thurston Hall
Col. Withering
Maurice Leo
Writer
Victor Mapes
Writer
Minna Gombell
Cora Withering
William Collier Sr.
Writer
Joyce Compton
Joan
Robert Warwick
Frome
John Ridgely
Desk Clerk
Joe Cunningham
Night Clerk
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Groom
George H. Reed
Sam
Maxine Sullivan
Specialty
Brooks Benedict
Party Guest / Racetrack Spectator
Ward Bond
Clarence - a Policeman
Eddy Chandler
Second Policeman
DeForest Covan
Shoe-Shine
Dorothy Dandridge
Member of The Dandridge Sisters
Vivian Dandridge
Member of The Dandridge Sisters
Jesse Graves
Butler at Party
John Harron
Man at Party
Etta Jones
Member of The Dandridge Sisters
Kenner G. Kemp
Steeplechase Observer
Jack Luden
Party Guest
Edmund Mortimer
Customer in Store
Ferdinand Munier
Man on Electric Horse
John J. Richardson
Man at Track
Janet Shaw
Young Lady at Party
Jack Shea
Party Guest
Rosella Towne
Young Lady at Party
Media.
Details.
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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.