Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Nicholson ya fara zuwa Hollywood a 1954, lokacin da yake da shekara goma sha bakwai, don ziyarci 'yar'uwarsa. Ya ɗauki aiki a matsayin ma'aikacin ofishi ga masu zane-zane William Hanna da Joseph Barbera a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na MGM. Sun ba shi aikin farawa a matsayin mai rayarwa, amma ya ƙi, yana mai cewa yana son zama ɗan wasan kwaikwayo. Ya horar da zama ɗan wasan kwaikwayo tare da ƙungiyar da ake kira Players Ring Theater, bayan wannan lokacin ya sami ƙananan ayyuka da ke gudana a kan fage da kuma wasan kwaikwayo na talabijin. Ya fara fitowa a fim a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na matasa mai ƙarancin kuɗi mai suna The Cry Baby Killer (1958), yana taka rawar gani. A cikin shekaru goma masu zuwa, Nicholson ya kasance mai haɗin gwiwa tare da mai shirya fim ɗin, Roger Corman. Corman ya jagoranci Nicholson a lokuta da dama, musamman a cikin The Little Shop of Horrors, a matsayin mai haƙuri mai haƙuri mai haƙuri da kuma mai aikin jana'izar Wilbur Force, da kuma a cikin Raven, The Terror inda yake wasa da wani jami'in Faransa wanda wani mummunar fatalwa ya yaudare shi, da kuma Kisan gillar ranar St. Valentine.  Tambaya: Yaushe Nicholson ya fara fitowa a fim?
Mai kashe jariri mai kuka (1958)