Many productions were musicals, comedies, melodramas or westerns. These have included traditional stage plays, comedies, melodramas, musicals, children's plays, stunt shows, and ballets. He followed that with melodramas, farces, and historical plays put on by highly regarded actors. He also attended musical events, including oratorios, operas, and melodramas. During the 1940s the British Gainsborough melodramas were successful with audiences. Towne has framed several of his signature films as elaborate melodramas. In the operatic melodramas to follow, Halee and his quartet provided all of the vocals. The most popular genres were melodramas and historical pageants which seldom went to festivals. Scott's romance was quickly made into unauthorized romantic melodramas. Her two films released in 2009 were both melodramas. Inspiration was also drawn from patriotic black-and-white British melodramas of the 1940s. Vaala was also a master within the rural subjects and romantic melodramas. Two Cities Films used him in one of its melodramas, "Hungry Hill" (1947). For several years, she starred in what were called "a series of first-rate melodramas". Jewell describes the film as "one of the very best program melodramas in RKO history".