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 ...

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 ...

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 ...