Going Places (1938 film)
1938 film by Ray Enright
- December 31, 1938 (1938-12-31)
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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.[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
References
External links
- Going Places at IMDb
- Going Places at AllMovie
- Going Places at the TCM Movie Database
- Going Places at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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Films directed by Ray Enright
- Tracked by the Police (1927)
- Jaws of Steel (1927)
- The Girl from Chicago (1927)
- Land of the Silver Fox (1928)
- The Little Wildcat (1928)
- Domestic Troubles (1928)
- Stolen Kisses (1929)
- Skin Deep (1929)
- Song of the West (1930)
- Golden Dawn (1930)
- Dancing Sweeties (1930)
- Scarlet Pages (1930)
- Play Girl (1932)
- The Tenderfoot (1932)
- Blondie Johnson (1933)
- Tomorrow at Seven (1933)
- The Silk Express (1933)
- Havana Widows (1933)
- I've Got Your Number (1934)
- Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)
- The Circus Clown (1934)
- Dames (1934)
- The St. Louis Kid (1934)
- While the Patient Slept (1935)
- Traveling Saleslady (1935)
- Alibi Ike (1935)
- We're in the Money (1935)
- Miss Pacific Fleet (1935)
- Snowed Under (1935)
- Earthworm Tractors (1936)
- China Clipper (1936)
- Sing Me a Love Song (1937)
- Ready, Willing, and Able (1937)
- Slim (1937)
- The Singing Marine (1937)
- Back in Circulation (1937)
- Swing Your Lady (1938)
- Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)
- Hard to Get (1938)
- Going Places (1938)
- The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
- On Your Toes (1939)
- Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
- Teddy, the Rough Rider (1940)
- An Angel from Texas (1940)
- River's End (1940)
- The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
- Thieves Fall Out (1941)
- Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
- Law of the Tropics (1941)
- Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
- The Spoilers (1942)
- Men of Texas (1942)
- Sin Town (1942)
- Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943)
- The Iron Major (1943)
- Gung Ho! (1943)
- China Sky (1945)
- Man Alive (1945)
- One Way to Love (1946)
- Trail Street (1947)
- Albuquerque (1948)
- Coroner Creek (1948)
- Return of the Bad Men (1948)
- South of St. Louis (1949)
- Montana (1950)
- Kansas Raiders (1950)
- Flaming Feather (1952)
- The Man from Cairo (1953)
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