| Fans of Douglas Sirk melodramas and other '50s potboilers are the best candidates for this kind of slick, earnestly soapy entertainment. |
| She did melodramas, musicals, romantic comedies, westerns, and horror films. |
| He was a melodramatist, infusing all those silly melodramas with style, with signs and meanings. |
| He wrote songs, operas, and operettas, pantomimes, melodramas, and in 1823, a History of Music. |
| As a young woman I was a great fan of the caution-to-the-winds romantic gesture, mostly found in books and weepy melodramas. |
| Adding drama to the downtown scene are the melodramas and vaudeville revues presented at the Gaslighter Theater. |
