Sylvia Lennick

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Sylvia Lennick (née Paige; November 14, 1915 – August 10, 2009) was a Canadian comedic actress. A supporting cast member of Wayne & Shuster's television comedy troupe, she was most famous for her role as Calpurnia, with the famous catch phrase "I told him, Julie! Don't go!", in the Julius Caesar sketch "Rinse the Blood Off My Toga".

In addition to her work with Wayne and Shuster, Lennick was a semi-regular on many of the CBC's weekly television series in the 1950s, including Cannonball and Tugboat Annie, as well as numerous comedy, drama and musical specials throughout the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and also played Mrs. Sherwood in the 1970-71 sitcom The Trouble with Tracy. She had supporting roles in film and television in her later years, including the Disney Channel television film Get a Clue and the horror film Visiting Hours.

In a 2008 interview with the Toronto Star to mark the 50th anniversary of the troupe's historic performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, Lennick stated that when she first read the script, she hadn't thought that "I told him, Julie! Don't go!" would be the sketch's biggest laugh line: "I thought I was going to kill them when I said, `It's the Ides of March, already.'"



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