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).

It’s now Benjamin Franklin House Museum, opened in 2006. In 1998, during construction to conserve the building, workers uncovered a cache of some 1,200 human and animal bones in the basement.

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 ...

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.

Franklin was apparently something of a sexual frontiersman, even at the age of 70 when he went off to Paris, but it is no more pleasant watching the 79-year-old Mr. Douglas leer after such ...