Michael Douglas says he had his work cut out for him turning into Benjamin Franklin for his new Apple TV+ series. Talking with ET's Cassie DiLaura ahead of the release of his show, Franklin, the ...

LOS ANGELES – Even Michael Douglas had doubts about portraying Benjamin Franklin ... Douglas earned Franklin's likeness naturally by growing out his hair. The wilder look led to tabloid ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...