A graduate of the University of Utah, American composer Leigh Harline was a musical director for local LA radio when he was tapped by Walt Disney to score the Silly Symphonies cartoon series in 1932. Harline had nothing to do with the first hit song from the Disney factory, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf," but he made up for this oversight with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In collaboration with Frank Churchill, Larry Morey, and Paul J. Smith, Harline was responsible for such immortal tunes as "I'm Wishing," "Whistle While You Work," "Heigh Ho" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come." Immensely satisfied with this Hit Parade lineup, Disney retained Harline's services for his next cartoon feature, Pinocchio (1939). In collaboration with Ned Washington and Paul J. Smith, Harline won an Academy Award for the Pinocchio opening-credits song "When You Wish Upon a Star," which would later become Disney's signature theme for his TV series. Harline left Disney in 1941 to compose for other studios (among his more memorable projects was the Hope-Crosby vehicle Road to Utopia [1945]), briefly returning to Uncle Walt for 1947's Fun and Fancy Free. Leigh Harline spent most of the '50s at 20th Century-Fox, then freelanced again, wrapping up his career in 1965 with the Universal Rock Hudson/Gina Lollobrigida comedy Strange Bedfellows.
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Strange Bedfellows
Composer (Music Score) |
1965 | |||
Guns of Diablo
Composer (Music Score) |
1964 | |||
Seven Faces of Dr. Lao
Composer (Music Score) |
1963 | |||
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Composer (Music Score) |
1962 | |||
The Honeymoon Machine
Composer (Music Score) |
1961 | |||
The Facts of Life
Composer (Music Score) |
1960 | |||
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Visit to a Small Planet
Composer (Music Score) |
1960 | |||
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Holiday for Lovers
Composer (Music Score) |
1959 | |||
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The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
Composer (Music Score) |
1959 | |||
These Thousand Hills
Composer (Music Score) |
1959 | |||
Warlock
Composer (Music Score) |
1959 | |||
Man of the West
Composer (Music Score) |
1958 | |||
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Shirley Temple's Storybook: Rumplestiltskin
Composer (Music Score) |
1958 | |||
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Ten North Frederick
Composer (Music Score) |
1958 | |||
No Down Payment
Composer (Music Score) |
1957 | |||
The Enemy Below
Composer (Music Score) |
1957 | |||
The True Story of Jesse James
Composer (Music Score) |
1957 | |||
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The Wayward Bus
Composer (Music Score) |
1957 | |||
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23 Paces to Baker Street
Composer (Music Score) |
1956 | |||
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Teenage Rebel
Composer (Music Score) |
1956 | |||
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The Bottom of the Bottle
Composer (Music Score) |
1956 | |||
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Good Morning, Miss Dove
Composer (Music Score) |
1955 | |||
House of Bamboo
Composer (Music Score) |
1955 | |||
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
Composer (Music Score) |
1955 | |||
The Last Frontier
Composer (Music Score) |
1955 | |||
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Black Widow
Composer (Music Score) |
1954 | |||
Broken Lance
Composer (Music Score) |
1954 | |||
Susan Slept Here
Composer (Music Score) |
1954 | |||
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Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Composer (Music Score) |
1953 | |||
Money from Home
Composer (Music Score) |
1953 | |||
Pickup on South Street
Composer (Music Score) |
1953 | |||
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Taxi
Composer (Music Score) |
1953 | |||
The Desert Rats
Composer (Music Score) |
1953 | |||
Vicki
Composer (Music Score) |
1953 | |||
Monkey Business
Composer (Music Score) |
1952 | |||
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My Pal Gus
Composer (Music Score) |
1952 | |||
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My Wife's Best Friend
Composer (Music Score) |
1952 | |||
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The Las Vegas Story
Composer (Music Score) |
1952 | |||
Behave Yourself!
Composer (Music Score) |
1951 | |||
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Call Me Mister
Composer (Music Score) |
1951 | |||
Double Dynamite
Composer (Music Score) |
1951 | |||
His Kind of Woman
Composer (Music Score) |
1951 | |||
I Want You
Composer (Music Score) |
1951 | |||
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On the Loose
Composer (Music Score) |
1951 | |||
That's My Boy
Composer (Music Score) |
1951 | |||
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The Guy Who Came Back
Composer (Music Score) |
1951 | |||
My Friend Irma Goes West
Composer (Music Score) |
1950 | |||
Perfect Strangers
Composer (Music Score) |
1950 | |||
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The Company She Keeps
Composer (Music Score) |
1950 | |||
The Happy Years
Composer (Music Score) |
1950 | |||
I Married a Communist
Composer (Music Score) |
1949 | |||
It Happens Every Spring
Composer (Music Score) |
1949 | |||
The Big Steal
Composer (Music Score) |
1949 | |||
The Judge Steps Out
Composer (Music Score) |
1949 | |||
They Live by Night
Composer (Music Score) |
1949 | |||
Every Girl Should Be Married
Composer (Music Score) |
1948 | |||
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Composer (Music Score) |
1948 | |||
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Station West
Songwriter |
1948 | |||
The Boy With Green Hair
Composer (Music Score) |
1948 | |||
The Miracle of the Bells
Composer (Music Score) |
1948 | |||
The Velvet Touch
Composer (Music Score), Songwriter |
1948 | |||
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A Likely Story
Composer (Music Score) |
1947 | |||
Beat the Band
Composer (Music Score) |
1947 | |||
Honeymoon
Composer (Music Score), Songwriter |
1947 | |||
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Composer (Music Score) |
1947 | |||
The Farmer's Daughter
Composer (Music Score) |
1947 | |||
Tycoon
Composer (Music Score) |
1947 | |||
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Child of Divorce
Composer (Music Score) |
1946 | |||
Crack-Up
Composer (Music Score) |
1946 | |||
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From This Day Forward
Composer (Music Score), Songwriter |
1946 | |||
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Lady Luck
Composer (Music Score) |
1946 | |||
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Nocturne
Composer (Music Score) |
1946 | |||
Road to Utopia
Composer (Music Score) |
1946 | |||
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The Truth About Murder
Composer (Music Score) |
1946 | |||
Till the End of Time
Composer (Music Score) |
1946 | |||
First Yank into Tokyo
Composer (Music Score) |
1945 | |||
Having Wonderful Crime
Composer (Music Score) |
1945 | |||
Isle of the Dead
Composer (Music Score) |
1945 | |||
Johnny Angel
Composer (Music Score) |
1945 | |||
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Mama Loves Papa
Composer (Music Score) |
1945 | |||
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Man Alive
Composer (Music Score) |
1945 | |||
The Brighton Strangler
Composer (Music Score) |
1945 | |||
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What a Blonde
Composer (Music Score) |
1945 | |||
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A Night of Adventure
Composer (Music Score) |
1944 | |||
China Sky
Composer (Music Score) |
1944 | |||
Follow the Boys
Musical Direction/Supervision |
1944 | |||
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Heavenly Days
Composer (Music Score) |
1944 | |||
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Music in Manhattan
Composer (Music Score) |
1944 | |||
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Government Girl
Composer (Music Score) |
1943 | |||
Johnny Come Lately
Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision |
1943 | |||
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Margin for Error
Composer (Music Score) |
1943 | |||
Tender Comrade
Composer (Music Score) |
1943 | |||
The More the Merrier
Composer (Music Score) |
1943 | |||
The Sky's the Limit
Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision |
1943 | |||
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Careful, Soft Shoulders
Composer (Music Score) |
1942 | |||
The Pride of the Yankees
Composer (Music Score) |
1942 | |||
They Got Me Covered
Composer (Music Score) |
1942 | |||
You Were Never Lovelier
Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision |
1942 | |||
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision |
1941 | |||
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
Composer (Music Score) |
1940 | |||
Pinocchio
Composer (Music Score), Songwriter |
1940 | |||
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Composer (Music Score) |
1937 | |||
Now and Forever
Songwriter |
1934 |
