Leigh Harline

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Leigh Harline
Birth nameLeigh Adrian Harline
Born(1907-03-26)March 26, 1907
Salt Lake City, Utah
OriginSalt Lake City, Utah
DiedDecember 10, 1969(1969-12-10) (aged 62)
Long Beach, California
Occupation(s)Composer

Leigh Adrian Harline (March 26, 1907 – December 10, 1969) was an American film composer and songwriter. He was known for his "musical sophistication that was uniquely 'Harline-esque' by weaving rich tapestries of mood-setting underscores and penning memorable melodies for animated shorts and features."

Biography

Leigh Harline was born March 26, 1907, in

Salt Lake City, Utah, the youngest of 13 children, to soldier Carl Härlin and his wife Johanna Matilda. His parents came from the village of Härfsta in Simtuna parish, Sweden. They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1888 and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1891. In the U.S., they changed their surname to Harline. Leigh was baptized a member of the LDS Church at age eight.[1]

Harline graduated from the

Silly Symphonies
cartoon series in the 1930s.

Harline co-scored and orchestrated music by

Some Day My Prince Will Come."[2][3]

Harline re-teamed with Smith again to compose the score for

Academy Award for Best Original Music Score and won both Harline and Washington the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "When You Wish Upon a Star".[2][3] The song went on to be featured on Disney's opening logo since 1985 and serve as the official theme song of the Walt Disney Company
.

Harline left Disney in 1941 to compose for other studios. His major credits include

The Desert Rats (1953), The Enemy Below (1957), Ten North Frederick (1958), Warlock (1959), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962), The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963), and 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
(1964).

He died from complications of throat cancer on December 10, 1969, in Long Beach, California, and is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.

Selected filmography

Sources

References

  1. ^ "Mormon Arts Festival 1995 Archive - Merrill Bradshaw".
  2. ^ a b Erickson, H. (2015). "Leigh Harline". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-06-30. Retrieved 2015-06-27.
  3. ^ a b Erickson, H. "Leigh Harline". AllMovie. Retrieved 2015-06-27.

Soundtrack Magazine, Vol. 8/No. 31 1989 by Ross Care

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