All of the ship's luxurious fittings were removed for its conversion into a prison ship during World War II. After the war, "Île de France" resumed transatlantic operations. In 1956, she played a key role in rescuing passengers from the SS "Andrea Doria" after the latter ship's fatal collision with the MS "Stockholm" off Nantucket. Her last public appearance came just before she was scrapped in 1959, "starring" in the movie "The Last Voyage" as a doomed ocean liner, and actually being partially sunk, while scenes were being filmed with actors playing their parts in the flooded ship. She was subsequently refloated and taken to Japan to be scrapped. The movie was released in 1960.