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Leigh Adrian Harline (March 26, 1907 – December 10, 1969) was a film composer. Leigh Harline was the youngest of 13 children. His parents, soldier Charles Härlin and his wife Johanna Matilda, came from the village Härfsta in Simtuna parish in 1891, Sweden. They had become Mormons and wanted to move to Salt Lake City in Utah. In the U.S. they changed their surname to Harline. Harline's parents joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1888. Harline was baptized a member of the LDS Church at age eight. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he worked for various radio stations... MORE

Leigh Adrian Harline (March 26, 1907 – December 10, 1969) was a film composer. Leigh Harline was the youngest of 13 children. His parents, soldier Charles Härlin and his wife Johanna Matilda, came from the village Härfsta in Simtuna parish in 1891, Sweden. They had become Mormons and wanted to move to Salt Lake City in Utah. In the U.S. they changed their surname to Harline. Harline's parents joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1888. Harline was baptized a member of the LDS Church at age eight. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he worked for various radio stations before joining the Walt Disney studios in 1932 as arranger and scorer. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Music Score and the Academy Award for Best Original Song (for "When You Wish Upon a Star") for Disney's Pinocchio (1940). The tune later become the theme for Disney's TV series The Wonderful World of Disney. A graduate of the University of Utah, Harline was a musical director for local Los Angeles radio when he was hired by Walt Disney to score the Silly Symphonies cartoon series in the 1930s. Together with Frank Churchill, Larry Morey, and Paul J. Smith, Harline was responsible for such LESS