Leigh Harline
Leigh Adrian 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 an extended family, studied music at the University of Utah . After completing his studies, he went to California in 1928, where he worked for various radio stations in San Francisco and Los Angeles , including composer, arranger and announcer. In 1932, Harline was hired by Walt Disney to write the music for several short films. Nine years later, Harline left Disney Studios and worked as a freelance composer before signing a contract with RKO Pictures in the mid-1940s . During the 1950s, Harline composed mainly for 20th Century Fox and from 1960 mostly for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , but also for television.
From 1932 onwards, Harline composed and arranged around 50 scores for short films by Walt Disney Studios, mainly for the Silly Symphonies . For Disney's first full-length cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , he composed the music together with Frank Churchill and received his first Oscar nomination for best film music, after which Walt Disney had Harline compose the music for the second long cartoon Pinocchio . For this Harline was honored in 1941 with two Oscars, one for Best Music and together with Ned Washington for Best Song , When You Wish Upon A Star (dt .: When a star in gloomy night ). Harline left the Disney studios that same year after an argument with Walt Disney who didn't like the film's music.
In 1943 Harline was nominated twice for an Oscar for the baseball drama The Big Throw , a biography of baseball player Lou Gehrig starring Gary Cooper . In total, the film received ten Oscar nominations, the only Oscar the film was awarded went to Dan Mandell for Best Editing. Harline received his second nomination for the film musical You Were Never More Enchanting, starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth . A year later, two more Oscar nominations followed, one for Johnny Come Lately , a drama starring James Cagney , and for the music for the musical The Sky's the Limit with Fred Astaire.
During his time at RKO, Harline wrote the music for films such as Love Is Not Easy (1947), a comedy with Cary Grant in the lead role, Val Lewton's horror film Isle of the Dead (1945) and Nicholas Ray's You Live at Night (1949 ). For 20th Century Fox, Harline composed the music for films such as Samuel Fuller's 1953 thriller Police Intervene , Edward Dmytryk's Western The Broken Lance (1954) and Duel in the Atlantic (1957) with Robert Mitchum and Curd Jürgens in the leading roles. Leigh Harline was nominated again for an Oscar for the music to George Pal's Die Wunderwelt der Brothers Grimm .
In total, Leigh Harline has been nominated eight times for an Oscar and received two of the trophies. In 1977, John Williams used the melody of When You Wish upon a Star from Pinocchio for Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind .
Filmography
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Web links
- Leigh Harline in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Leigh Harline at Discogs (English)
- When a star in the dark night in Duckipedia
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| SURNAME | Harline, Leigh |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harline, Leigh Adrian (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salt Lake City , Utah, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 1969 |
| Place of death | Long Beach , California, USA |