“The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” appeared posthumously in ... the famously ratty fur hat that looks like it still needs to be fed. Franklin was apparently something of a sexual ...

LOS ANGELES – Even Michael Douglas had doubts about portraying Benjamin Franklin ... the famed Franklin spectacles, and the marten fur hat that was the talk of France at the time.

wearing a fur hat and wooing old ladies. Benjamin Franklin, however, walked the Earth as a polymath in an era of polymaths, a self-made printing magnate who spent his spare time inventing and ...

Paradoxically — or perhaps not, since we are in Paris where Franklin is the foreigner — this “natural” American, who eschews the fripperies of fashionable dress for a trapper’s fur hat ...

Enter “Benjamin Franklin,” four hours devoted to the Founding Father, capturing all the facets of a man described as “the most famous American in the world” during his time. An inventor ...