Mark Twains legacy includes awards, events, a variety of memorials and namesakes, and numerous works of art, entertainment, and media.
Amusement parks and attractions
An audio-animatronic of Mark Twain acts as co-host of a show named "The American Adventure" at Epcot, Walt Disney World Mark Twain Riverboat in Hannibal, Missouri; a local attraction Mark Twain Riverboat, an attraction at the Disneyland theme parks in Anaheim, California (on which passengers embark on a scenic, 12-minute journey around the Rivers of America this one had her maiden voyage on July 13, 1955), Disneyland Paris, Tokyo Disneyland, and Walt Disney World
Arts and entertainment
Artwork
Twain is among the historical figures depicted in Our Nation's 200th Birthday, The Telephone's 100th Birthday (1976) by Stanley Meltzoff for Bell System.
Comics
In The Five Fists of Science (2006) Twain teams up with Nikola Tesla to defeat the evil plans of Thomas Edison. Twain appeared in a comic strip story featuring The Phantom. The story featured the 16th Phantom meeting Twain in the Wild West. In the 2009 webcomic Homestuck, Mark Twain is depicted as Colonel Sassacre. Clemens appears in "Three Septembers and a January", issue 31 of The Sandman. Set in September 1864, Clemens is a journalist in San Francisco who strikes up a friendship with Emperor Norton I. After Clemens tells Norton his story about a jumping frog, the Emperor encourages Clemens to publish it.
Film
James Bush portrayed Twain in the 1937 film Battle of Greed. Fredric March portrayed Twain in the 1944 film The Adventures of Mark Twain. Forrest Taylor portrayed Twain in the 1945 film Rockin' in the Rockies. The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985), a Claymation fantasy film, focuses on Twain trying to "keep his appointment" with Halley's Comet, as he was born under Halley's Comet and said he would die upon its return, which he did. Twain was voiced here by James Whitmore. Disney made a 1991 film titled Mark Twain and Me, based on his acquaintance with young girl Dorothy Quick, during the final years of his life. Twain inspired Dorothy to later become an author. Jason Robards played Twain. Dennis O'Connor voiced Twain in the 1998 IMAX documentary Mark Twain's America, directed by Stephen Low. Kevin Conway voiced Twain in the 2002 documentary Mark Twain, which was produced and directed by Ken Burns. Rapper Vanilla Ice played Twain in the Western comedy film The Ridiculous 6. Nathan Osgood portrayed Twain in the 2018 comedy Holmes & Watson.