Leigh Harline
Leigh Harline ( born March 26, 1907 in Salt Lake City, † December 10, 1969 in Long Beach, California ) was an American film composer.
Life
Harline, who came from a large family, studied at the University of Utah music. After graduating, he went in 1928 to California, where he worked as a composer, arranger and announcer for several radio stations in San Francisco and Los Angeles. In 1932, Harline was hired by Walt Disney to write the music for several short films. Nine years later left Harline the Disney Studios and worked as a freelance composer before he signed mid -1940s, a contract with RKO Pictures. During the 1950s Harline composed mainly of 20th Century Fox and from 1960 mostly for Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer, but also for television.
As of 1932, composed and arranged Harline 50 scores for short films of Walt Disney Studios, mainly for the Silly Symphonies. For Disney's first animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, he composed together with Frank Churchill, the music and received his first Oscar nomination for Best Film Music, whereupon Walt Disney Harline was also compose the music for the second long animated film Pinocchio. For Harline in 1941 honored with two Oscars, one for Best Music and together with Ned Washington for Best Song, When You Wish Upon A Star ( Eng.: When a Star in gloomy night). Harline left Disney studios in the same year, after a dispute with Walt Disney, the music of the film had not fallen.
In 1943, Harline was twice nominated for an Oscar, for the baseball drama The master stroke, a biography of the baseball player Lou Gehrig Gary Cooper in the lead role. Overall, the film received ten Academy Award nominations, the only Oscar with the film was excellent, went to Dan Mandell for Best Editing. The second nomination this year received Harlin for the movie musical You Were Never Lovelier with Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth in the lead roles. A year later, two more Oscar nominations, one for Johnny Come Lately, a drama starring James Cagney in the lead role, and for the music to the musical The Sky's the Limit with Fred Astaire.
During his tenure at RKO Harline wrote the music for such films as This is the simple love not (1947 ), a comedy with Cary Grant in the lead role, Val Lewtons horror film Isle of the Dead ( 1945) and Nicholas Ray's They live by night (1949 ). For the 20th Century Fox Harline composed the music for films such as Samuel Fuller's Thriller police intervenes from 1953, Edward Dmytryks Western The broken lance ( 1954) and Duel in the Atlantic ( 1957) with Robert Mitchum and Curd Jürgens in the lead roles. For the music to George Pals The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm Leigh Harline was nominated a second time for an Oscar.
Overall, Leigh Harline was eight times nominated for an Oscar and won two trophies. In 1977, John Williams used the melody of the song When You Wish Upon a Star from Pinocchio for Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the third kind