Douglas is excellent as Ben Franklin in his first role in a period piece and even looks the part (which helps). He just seems to get better with age (he’s 80).

My view of Ben Franklin is often informed solely by HBO’s John Adams series – the annoying guy living it up in France most of the time, wearing a fur hat and wooing old ladies. Benjamin ...

LOS ANGELES – Even Michael Douglas had doubts about portraying Benjamin Franklin in the Oscar-winning actor's first period drama. Douglas, 79, who famously proclaimed "Greed is Good" in his ...

The actor plays Benjamin Franklin during a diplomatic trip to France in this eight-part series on Apple TV+. ... in Franklin’s case, the famously ratty fur hat that looks like it still needs to ...

At the Jan. 20, 2009, inauguration of President Obama, Aretha Franklin's hat nearly stole the show. Her chapeau became a sensation, and made its creator, 36-year-old Luke Song, famous overnight.

Ben Franklin’s Star Turn ... Douglas largely grows into the simple American suit and fur hat, the iconic Franklin uniform familiar to many impersonators roaming the streets of Philadelphia.

There's a story about Benjamin Franklin. It's exactly what worried them. In October of 1776, ... He wears a plain brown suit and instead of a powdered wig, he wears a fur hat.

It was the hat that launched a thousand memes. When Aretha Franklin stole the show at Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, the music legend — who died Thursday morning at the age of 76 — wore a ...

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 “rugged American frontiersman.” ...

When Detroit milliner Luke Song made Aretha Franklin's now-iconic 2009 inaugural hat — you know, the one with the big bow? — he had no idea he'd be making thousands more.