The Best Man (1964)

Edie Adams: Mabel Cantwell

Quotes 

• Mabel Cantwell : Why is big Papa Bear so mean to poor little Mama Bear?

  Joe Cantwell : Oh, I'm sorry baby. You know Papa Bear isn't mean to his Mama Bear. Ever. Ever.

• Mabel Cantwell : Honey, now, you play it cool, like the kid's say.

• Mabel Cantwell : Zip me up.

  [Joe zips] 

  Mabel Cantwell : Joe, you sure you've never been unfaithful to me? Maybe just one little time on one of those junkets like you all flew to Paris and all the Senators got drunk and Clarence Whetlock contracted a social disease and Alice Whetlock was fit to be tied.

• Sue Ellen Gamadge : I'm a loyal party worker and the women are solidly behind Bill Russell.

  Mabel Cantwell : Under him is there more usual position. Sex, sex, sex, morning, noon and night with Bill Russell.

  Sue Ellen Gamadge : Oh, Mabel.

  Mabel Cantwell : And that's just plain immature.

• Mabel Cantwell : Joe, I'm scared to death.

  Joe Cantwell : Well, don't be! Come here, poor Mama Bear. Now, don't you worry. Papa Bear isn't going to get shot down this close to that honey tree.

• Mabel Cantwell : I just don't see how they could use something like that, which is completely untrue, which is a dirty lie, which everybody knew was a lie, even at the time. Oh, how I hate politics!