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", introduced by Louis Armstrong, whose character sings and plays it to a horse.
Two earlier films, The Hottentot (1922) and The Hottentot (1929), were adapted from the same 1920 play of that name.
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
The Dandridge Sisters appear unbilled, as singers in a large production number.
The song "Jeepers Creepers" was nominated for the American Film Institute list AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs.
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).