| He wrote songs, operas, and operettas, pantomimes, melodramas, and in 1823, a History of Music. |
| 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. |
| By evoking scenes from old Hollywood melodramas and thrillers, the images conveyed vague feelings of tension and threat. |
| With epic melodramas such as this one, the main character always makes one fatal mistake. |
| Adding drama to the downtown scene are the melodramas and vaudeville revues presented at the Gaslighter Theater. |
