During the 1940s, Shaw wrote for a number of films, including "The Talk of the Town" (a comedy about civil liberties), "The Commandos Strike at Dawn" (based on a C.S. Forester story about commandos in occupied Norway) and "Easy Living" (about a football player unable to enter the game due to a medical condition). Shaw married Marian Edwards (daughter of well-known screen actor Snitz Edwards). They had one son, Adam Shaw, born in 1950, himself a writer of magazine articles and non-fiction.