Michael Douglas fits the bill as Ben Franklin in “Franklin,” an eight ... the public copying the fur hat he wears) and embarks on making history … which will take a while (two years, to ...

Some of George Washington’s soldiers mutinied. Benjamin Franklin returned to Paris and for a time was popular. He wore a fur hat and a brown coat, giving him what the French saw as the look of a ...

He donned the period outfit, embracing the tights, the custom-made shoes, the famed Franklin spectacles, and the marten fur hat that was the talk of France at the time. Voila! Ben Franklin by way ...