Leigh Harline(1907-1969)
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Academy Award-winning composer (score, Pinocchio (1940), conductor,
songwriter ("When You Wish Upon a Star" [Academy award, Best Song,
1940) and arranger Leigh Harine was educated at the University of Utah.
He was a music student of J. Spencer Cornwall. He arranged the first
transcontinental broadcast from Los Angeles in 1932, and that year
joined the Walt Disney Studios. From 1941 he freelanced among various
Hollywood studios. He joined ASCAP in 1940. His other popular song
compositions include "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee", "Give a Little Whistle" and
"Jiminy Cricket".
