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".
Academy Awards
Best Original Score
Known For
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(1937)
Original Music Composer
Pinocchio
(1940)
Original Music Composer and Songs
Bambi
(1942)
Music
The Big Steal
(1949)
Music
Warlock
(1959)
Original Music Composer
River of No Return
(1954)
Music
Monkey Business
(1952)
Music
Man of the West
(1958)
Original Music Composer
The Pride of the Yankees
(1942)
Original Music Composer
The Enemy Below
(1957)
Original Music Composer
Broken Lance
(1954)
Original Music Composer
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
(1947)
Original Music Composer
Sailor Beware
(1952)
Original Music Composer
Strange Bedfellows
(1965)
Original Music Composer
Pickup on South Street
(1953)
Original Music Composer
Music Land
(1935)
Original Music Composer
Full Filmography
Sound
The Pied Piper
(1933)
Original Music Composer
The Night Before Christmas
(1933)
Original Music Composer
Lullaby Land
(1933)
Original Music Composer
Father Noah's Ark
(1933)
Original Music Composer
Mickey's Mechanical Man
(1933)
Music
The China Shop
(1934)
Original Music Composer
The Goddess of Spring
(1934)
Original Music Composer
The Wise Little Hen
(1934)
Original Music Composer
Peculiar Penguins
(1934)
Original Music Composer
Funny Little Bunnies
(1934)
Original Music Composer
The Grasshopper and the Ants
(1934)
Original Music Composer
Two-Gun Mickey
(1934)
Original Music Composer
Water Babies
(1935)
Original Music Composer
Music Land
(1935)
Original Music Composer
Mickey's Garden
(1935)
Original Music Composer
The Cookie Carnival
(1935)
Original Music Composer
On Ice
(1935)
Original Music Composer
The Band Concert
(1935)
Music
Mickey's Grand Opera
(1936)
Original Music Composer
The Country Cousin
(1936)
Original Music Composer
Toby Tortoise Returns
(1936)
Original Music Composer
Mother Pluto
(1936)
Original Music Composer
Elmer Elephant
(1936)
Original Music Composer
Thru the Mirror
(1936)
Music
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(1937)
Original Music Composer
The Old Mill
(1937)
Original Music Composer
Woodland Café
(1937)
Original Music Composer
Boat Builders
(1938)
Original Music Composer and Music
Wynken, Blynken & Nod
(1938)
Original Music Composer
Farmyard Symphony
(1938)
Original Music Composer
Blondie Brings Up Baby
(1939)
Original Music Composer
Blondie Takes a Vacation
(1939)
Original Music Composer
Blondie Meets the Boss
(1939)
Original Music Composer
The Lady and the Mob
(1939)
Original Music Composer
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
(1940)
Original Music Composer
Blondie on a Budget
(1940)
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Blondie Plays Cupid
(1940)
Original Music Composer
Pinocchio
(1940)
Original Music Composer and Songs
Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip
(1940)
Original Music Composer
Pluto's Dream House
(1940)
Original Music Composer
So You Won't Talk?
(1940)
Original Music Composer
Donald's Dog Laundry
(1940)
Music
Blondie in Society
(1941)
Original Music Composer
A Good Time for a Dime
(1941)
Original Music Composer
Golden Eggs
(1941)
Original Music Composer
The Art of Self Defense
(1941)
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Lend a Paw
(1941)
Original Music Composer
Baggage Buster
(1941)
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Mr. Bug Goes to Town
(1941)
Music
The Pride of the Yankees
(1942)
Original Music Composer
The Lady Has Plans
(1942)
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The Sleepwalker
(1942)
Original Music Composer
Prelude to War
(1942)
Music
On the Sunny Side
(1942)
Original Music Composer
Rings on Her Fingers
(1942)
Music
Bambi
(1942)
Music
You Were Never Lovelier
(1942)
Music Director
Footlight Glamour
(1943)
Original Music Composer
It's a Great Life
(1943)
Original Music Composer
The More the Merrier
(1943)
Original Music Composer
They Came to Blow Up America
(1943)
Original Music Composer
They Got Me Covered
(1943)
Original Music Composer
Margin for Error
(1943)
Music
Johnny Come Lately
(1943)
Music Director
Government Girl
(1943)
Music
The Sky's the Limit
(1943)
Music Director
Tender Comrade
(1944)
Original Music Composer
Music in Manhattan
(1944)
Original Music Composer
A Night of Adventure
(1944)
Original Music Composer
Heavenly Days
(1944)
Original Music Composer
No Dough Boys
(1944)
Music Arranger
Leave It to Blondie
(1945)
Original Music Composer
Isle of the Dead
(1945)
Original Music Composer
Johnny Angel
(1945)
Original Music Composer
The Brighton Strangler
(1945)
Original Music Composer
Man Alive
(1945)
Original Music Composer
China Sky
(1945)
Original Music Composer
George White's Scandals
(1945)
Songs
What a Blonde
(1945)
Music
Having Wonderful Crime
(1945)
Music
Crack-Up
(1946)
Original Music Composer
Road to Utopia
(1946)
Original Music Composer
Nocturne
(1946)
Original Music Composer
Till the End of Time
(1946)
Original Music Composer
Child of Divorce
(1946)
Original Music Composer
From This Day Forward
(1946)
Original Music Composer
Beat the Band
(1947)
Original Music Composer
The Judge Steps Out
(1947)
Original Music Composer
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
(1947)
Original Music Composer
A Likely Story
(1947)
Music
The Farmer's Daughter
(1947)
Original Music Composer
Every Girl Should Be Married
(1948)
Original Music Composer
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
(1948)
Original Music Composer
The Miracle of the Bells
(1948)
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The Boy with Green Hair
(1948)
Music
The Velvet Touch
(1948)
Music
They Live by Night
(1949)
Original Music Composer
It Happens Every Spring
(1949)
Original Music Composer
The Big Steal
(1949)
Music
The Woman on Pier 13
(1950)
Original Music Composer
My Friend Irma Goes West
(1950)
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The Happy Years
(1950)
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Perfect Strangers
(1950)
Music
The Company She Keeps
(1951)
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I Want You
(1951)
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His Kind of Woman
(1951)
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The Guy Who Came Back
(1951)
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That's My Boy
(1951)
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The Las Vegas Story
(1952)
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My Pal Gus
(1952)
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Sailor Beware
(1952)
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Monkey Business
(1952)
Music
Vicki
(1953)
Original Music Composer
Pickup on South Street
(1953)
Original Music Composer
Taxi
(1953)
Original Music Composer
A Blueprint for Murder
(1953)
Original Music Composer
Money from Home
(1953)
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The Desert Rats
(1953)
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Black Widow
(1954)
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Susan Slept Here
(1954)
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Broken Lance
(1954)
Original Music Composer
River of No Return
(1954)
Music
Good Morning, Miss Dove
(1955)
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House of Bamboo
(1955)
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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
(1955)
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The Last Frontier
(1955)
Original Music Composer
The Girl Can't Help It
(1956)
Original Music Composer
23 Paces to Baker Street
(1956)
Original Music Composer
The Bottom of the Bottle
(1956)
Original Music Composer
The Best Things in Life Are Free
(1956)
Original Music Composer
The Enemy Below
(1957)
Original Music Composer
The Wayward Bus
(1957)
Original Music Composer
No Down Payment
(1957)
Original Music Composer
The True Story of Jesse James
(1957)
Original Music Composer
Man of the West
(1958)
Original Music Composer
Warlock
(1959)
Original Music Composer
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
(1959)
Original Music Composer
Visit to a Small Planet
(1960)
Original Music Composer
The Facts of Life
(1960)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
All Hands on Deck
(1961)
Original Music Composer
The Honeymoon Machine
(1961)
Original Music Composer
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
(1962)
Music and Conductor
Guns of Diablo
(1964)
Original Music Composer
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
(1964)
Music
Strange Bedfellows
(1965)
Original Music Composer
Everybody Loves Mickey
(2001)
Music
Crew