Although Lenore had been more independent than many women of the time, she later stated that she "never had any regrets about giving up movies." Another time she said that she had never had a choice of both marriage and an acting career: "In an acting career, I would have been upstaging him, and he couldn't stand that. It was never either "and"; it was always either "or"." George would later consider his successful seven-year courtship of her to be his greatest sales achievement.