The great mystery of this melodramatic comedy is how Gable could have fallen for the fussy Mary Astor with Harlow around.

"The Dead" and "Prizzi's Honor" (1985), Huston's altogether different, exuberantly melodramatic comedy, comprise a one-two punch quite unlike anything I can remember in movies.

This melodramatic comedy was rated NC-17 by the MPAA, although the rating was later surrendered.

The boundaries between Spieloper and a form of German drama "Posse mit Gesang" (melodramatic comedy with musical interludes) and operetta are not well distinguished.

Differing essentially from his previous efforts, this play is an ordinary melodramatic comedy.

Santori wrote many plays, including melodramatic comedies and tragedies some of which remain incomplete.

What was once an evilly skeptical, bitter melodramatic comedy about Hollywood's self-infatuation has been turned into something quite other.

The festival's most securely stylized film was "House of Games," Mr. Mamet's melodramatic comedy about confidence artists for whom, as the film maker knows, style is all.

He fixed his eyes on the stage, although Carrie was not there, a short bit of melodramatic comedy preceding her entrance.

Thus, the effect is tonic when something turns up as singular as "The Sopranos," HBO's 13-episode, nearly 13-hour melodramatic comedy, created by the seriously talented David Chase.