Greta Garbo, through her character in Grand Hotel (1932), did say: “I want to be alone”, and George Cukor, not Irving Thalberg, directed Garbo in Camille (1936); Thalberg was the producer (“I don’t want to be alone: letters reveal Garbo regretted lonely life”, 6 October, World, page 29).
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