Garbo was offered a part in the film but found it boring to play "an aged actress".

Greta Garbo dropped out of the lead role.

Garbo was wanted for a role in this all-star omnibus film by director Julien Duvivier, but declined.

Garbo turned down the role of the Norwegian matriarch at the same time she turned down Alfred Hitchcock's "The Paradine Case." She is reported to have said, "No murderesses, no mamas."

Garbo shot screen tests for this comeback film in 1948 but the producers could not raise funding and it was abandoned.

In 1938, Garbo was announced to star as the title character, the female scientist who discovered radioactivity. But the project was shelved.

Katharine Hepburn asked MGM to cast her as Lavinia and Garbo as her mother Christine Mannon, but this did not happen.

Garbo relented at the last minute and the role went to Olivia de Havilland.

As early as the 50's, Orson Welles wanted to produce a film about Blixen's best selling novel, starring Garbo.

Master director Alfred Hitchcock was among the many who tried to lure Garbo out of retirement to star as the beautiful, treacherous, unfaithful Mrs. Paradine.

Garbo inexplicably showed interest in playing the title character in this 1945 MGM film, as a comeback role. Billy Wilder used this idea for his film Fedora, the story of a seemingly ageless actress.

Garbo was attached to an earlier script that concentrated more on Vantine's story.

MGM initially planned to star Garbo as Lil Andrews.

According to many sources around 1945, Gabriel Pascal attempted to film a motion picture adaptation of George B. Shaw's "St. Joan", but the film wasn't made until the 1950s.

Garbo turned down the lead role of Dorothy Daley in this film.

Garbo was the first actress approached but she declined the role of Norma Desmond.

Garbo was the first choice for the role of Ana De Mendoza, but she declined it.

In 1928, MGM announced Garbo would play a woman who hypnotizes men in a screenplay written by Elinor Glyn, who had written it for Clara Bow. Garbo rejected it and the film was not made.

Eager to give light comedy a try, Garbo supposedly asked MGM's top brass to purchase the rights to this Broadway hit. Warner Brothers snapped up the property before MGM got their hands on it.

The producer offered Greta Garbo $1 million to play the Mother Superior.

After the success of Flesh and the Devil, Garbo refused this film.