Sylvia Lennick

Sylvia Bela 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 Shakespearean parody "Rinse the Blood Off My Toga".

In the early 1960s Ben and Sylvia, along with partner Jack Merigold, revived Belmont Theatre Productions and produced several seasons of well-received dramas, comedies and musicals. In the mid-1970s Ben and Sylvia, along with Jack Merigold and new cast member Allan Price, took the concept one crucial step further with the creation of their new company Theatre in the Home, bringing professional theatre productions to shut-ins in retirement communities and private residences.

In 1983, Lennick and Jan Rubeš appeared as Fräulein Schneider and Herr Schultz in a Toronto production of Cabaret.

In a 2008 interview with the Toronto Star to mark the 50th anniversary of the Wayne & Shuster 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.'"

Death Lennick died on August 10, 2009, at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre of complications from pneumonia, aged 93.