King and his brother, director
Louis King, both worked at 20th Century-Fox at the same time in the 1940s. While Henry got large-scale, "important" pictures, Louis was usually given lower-budget outdoors pictures, mysteries or westerns. Henry's "prestige" picture,
Wilson (1944), was a very expensive flop, though, while Louis' low-budget outdoors picture
Smoky (1946) was one of Fox's biggest moneymakers that year. Shortly after "Smoky" was released, Henry stopped Louis on the lot one day and said, "I've just come from the accounting office and seen the figures. 'Smoky' has now earned what we lost on 'Wilson' ".
