- EMOTED
- Overacted
- Acted badly
- Made a big scene?
- Took on a bad posture
- Acted stagily
- Hammed it up
- Performed badly?
- Chewed the scenery
- Got theatrical
- Overplayed
- Gave an over-the-top performance
- Did it broadly, on Broadway
- Acted unprofessionally
- Played the ham
- Made faces, say
- Waxed maudlinly
- Acted
- Didn't act well
- Frustrated the director, perhaps
- Was melodramatic
- Melodramatized
- Overplayed, in a way
- Waxed melodramatic
- Overdid one's part
- Got melodramatic
- Was overtheatrical
- Feigned feelings
- Overplayed one's role
- Overexpressed a role
- Overplayed it
- Displayed feeling: Jocose.
- Overdid a scene.
- Behaved theatrically: Colloq.
- Emulated certain actresses.
- Overacted: Colloq.
- Acted in a way
- Put on an act
- Was theatrical
- Raged onstage
- Was impassioned
- Played a part to the hilt
- Showed feeling
- What Pearl White did in films
- Emulated William Gillette
- Emulated Mary Pickford
- Emulated Pearl White
- Indulged in cabotinage
- Mugged, maybe
- Acted amateurishly
- Did B-grade stage work
- Did with a passion?
- Waxed perfervid
- Didn't act subtly
- Mugged
- Put on a show
- Was a bad player, perhaps
- Acted hammily
- Overplayed one's feelings
- Wept wildly, maybe
- Gushed
- Went over the top, in a way
- Didn't hide one's feelings, to say the least
- Overdid it onstage
- Hammed it up on stage
- Wasn't stoic
- Acted too broadly
- Hammed up 'Hamlet'
- Was hammy
- Exaggerated a part
- Brought the drama
- Acted over-the-top?
- Acted too dramatically
- Was a ham
- Overplayed a part, say
- Acted broadly, on Broadway
- Showed feelings
- Acted poorly?
- Became melodramatic
