Sylvia Lennick
Sylvia Lennick (1915 – August 10, 2009)[1] 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".[1]
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.'"[2]
Apart from her roles with Wayne & Shuster and as Mrs. Sherwood in The Trouble with Tracy, Lennick was primarily a stage actress.
She spent much of her life married to her Wayne & Shuster castmate Ben Lennick.[1] They had three children: Michael, a television producer, Julie, an actress, and David, a radio disc jockey.
References
- ^ a b c "Sylvia Lennick, Wayne & Shuster sidekick, dies at 93". The Globe and Mail, August 10, 2009.
- ^ "50 years since she said, 'Julie, don't go!'". Toronto Star, May 2, 2008.
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