Post-war Service
While serving as reserve training ship at Brooklyn Navy Yard, Nicholson served as the backdrop for the big-screen musical On the Town starring Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Vera Ellen, Ann Miller and Betty Garret. The ship was shown in the beginning of the movie and also in the last scene.
Nicholson was recommissioned 17 July 1950, then decommissioned once more and transferred to the Italian Navy 15 January 1951.
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