Dramas
Romances
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Fontaine's Oscar was the only Academy Award ever given to an actor in an Alfred Hitchcock film; among the competitors she beat was her sister Olivia in Hold Back the Dawn.Fontaine starred in a series of mostly costume dramas and romances throughtout the 1940s and 1950s.
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Most costume dramas are adaptations of classic literature, often romances, but the term can also be used to describe things such as Robin Hood.
Source: Costume Drama - The standard Bollywood narrative still involves the "masala film" involving family-dramas/unrequited-love/rich-girl-poor-boy romances.
Source: Useful Notes / Bollywood
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Romances and Dramas. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dramas/romances
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