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Actor Robert Mitchum says screen sex symbol Marilyn Monroe possessed little sex appeal in real life. “Marilyn was not a very sexy girl, not at all,” said Mitchum, 72, when asked about the late actress at an American film festival in Deauville, France. “She had no sex appeal at all. None. She had a number of various serious physical problems, really, and she was very shy.” Mitchum was in Deauville for a tribute to his films, dating back to 1943. Among the pictures were “When Strangers Marry,” which won him an Oscar award nomination in 1944, and “River of No Return,” which co-starred Monroe, who died of a drug overdose in 1962.