The Life of Legendary Hollywood Actor Richard Gere

Around the early 1970s, Gere began an on-and-off relationship with actress Penelope Milford. It became one of his first long-term public romances, arriving while he was still building his career through theater rather than the movie-star roles that later defined him.

Their relationship belonged to the same early chapter as his stage work and first real professional breaks. Gere was still more emerging actor than celebrity, but his private life was already beginning to attach itself to the public story that would follow him.