Which 1932 MGM film contains Greta Garbo's line 'I want to be alone'?

The 1932 MGM film containing Greta Garbo’s line “I want to be alone” is Grand Hotel.

Directed by Edmund Goulding, Grand Hotel is a pre-Code drama set in a luxurious Berlin hotel where several guests’ lives intersect. Garbo plays Grusinskaya, a Russian ballerina whose career is fading. Her famous words became closely associated with Garbo’s own famously private public image.

The film was adapted from Vicki Baum’s 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel, through a successful Broadway play. Its ensemble cast included John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, and Lewis Stone. The production’s elaborate hotel-lobby set helped establish the multi-story, intersecting-storyline format later known as the “grand hotel” formula.

A common mix-up is the wording: Garbo’s character says “I want to be alone,” then “I just want to be alone,” while Garbo later claimed the intended sentiment was closer to “I want to be let alone.” Grand Hotel won Best Picture at the 1933 Oscars and remains the only Best Picture winner not nominated in any other category.