The Young Lions Part 65

Shaw just after D-Day in Normandy, France, in 1944.

A few weeks after D-Day, Shaw and his Signal Corps film crew liberate Mont Saint-Michel.

A 1944 letter from Shaw to his wife, Marian, describing the "taking" of Mont Saint-Michel, as well as a nerve-wracking night under a cathedral when he almost shot a group of monks, believing them to be Germans.

Shaw as a warrant-officer in Austria in 1945, with Signal Corps Captain Josh Logan (left) and Colonel Anatole Litvak (center), who became his lifelong friends.

Shaw, Marian, and their son, Adam, on the terrace of the newly built Chalet Mia in Klosters, Switzerland, in 1957.

Shaw at home with Marian at Chalet Mia, Klosters, in 1958.

Shaw (center) skiing in Klosters in 1960 with (left to right) Noel Howard (an actor), an unidentified Hollywood producer, Marian Shaw, Jacques Charmoz (a French World War II pilot, cartoonist, and painter), and Jacqueline Tesseron.

Shaw in Klosters in 1960 with (from left to right) Kathy Parrish, her husband Robert Parrish (an Academy Awardwinning film editor and director), and Peter Viertel (a screenwriter, novelist, and Shaw's coauthor for the play The Survivors). Shaw's friendship with Viertel started before the war, when they both lived in Malibu.

Shaw with Irving P. "Swifty" Lazar, the legendary talent agent who represented him, in Evian, France, in 1963.

Shaw playing tennis in Klosters in 1964.

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The words for Cole Porter's "Night and Day," copyrighted, 1932, by Harms, Inc., which appear on page 49, and Herman Hupfeld's "Are You Makin' Any Money?" copyrighted, 1933, by Harms, Inc., on pages 103, 199, 281, 363, 562, are used by permission.

The words for "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'," which appear on page 345, are copyright, 1943, by Williamson Music, Inc., New York, and are reproduced by permission of the copyright owner.

Copyright 1948 by Irwin Shaw.

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