The Beatniks (1958)

Karen Kadler: Iris

Quotes 

• [Television agent Harry Bayliss asks Eddy about how he learned to sing] 

  Eddy Crane : Call that singin'? That was nuthin'.

  Iris : Eddy learned hisself ta sing, didn't cha, Eddy?

  Eddy Crane : Shut up, Iris.

• [Eddy brings his gang into Bayliss's office, where they meet with TV station manager Ray Morrissey] 

  Iris : Are you the guy's who's gonna put Eddy on the TV?

  Mr. Ray Morrissey : Well, I don't know, miss. Eh, we came down to hear him sing. If he's anything like, uh...

  Iris : Oh, come *on*, pop! Eddy can sing rings around any of 'em! He can sing better than any of 'em -

  Eddy Crane : Shut up, Iris.

  Iris : But I just wanted -

  Eddy Crane : You hear what I said?

• [Moon and the gang want Eddy to party down, but the TV folks advise abstention] 

  Helen Tracy : There'll be plenty of time to celebrate later on. You could catch cold or something.

  Iris : What're you, his mother?

  Helen Tracy : I didn't -

  Eddy Crane : Iris!

• [At the hotel, the gang parties, but Eddy is in a somber mood] 

  Bob 'Moon' Mooney : ...the matter, man? Why don't you join the party? What's the matter, you afraid you might be catchin' a cold, man?

  Iris : Maybe you just wanna be with that freako nuthin' you've been makin' eyes with, huh?

  Eddy Crane : Get off my back, Iris. I'm thinkin'.