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Swedish Dish: Though Greta Garbo's tagline was supposedly, "I want to be alone," the Swedish actress maintained she'd been misquoted.

What she really said? "I want to be let alone."

There's a galaxy between the two statements. She wasn't about solitude; she was about inaccessibility... more -- which is inherently sexy. A huge star in the '20s and '30s, Garbo stopped signing autographs, answering fan mail, attending premieres and giving interviews early on in her career -- one described by fellow sexpot Bette Davis as "pure witchcraft."

Consider us spellbound.