""In its awards year with competitorsThe African Queen (1951),A Place in the Sun (1951),An American in Paris (1951), andA Streetcar Named Desire (1951)that received most of the accolades and awards,The Day the Earth Stood Stilldid not receive any nominations - not unusual for a sci-fi film.Just six weeks before the Academy Award nominations were made, the Academy revoked its long-standing anti-Communist rule that people who testified to being Communist or who had refused to testify were not eligible for Oscars.The memorable scene recreates a discussion the trio may have had.Before a roaring fire, Mary expresses her unusual fear of thunder and the dark:Lord Byron: The crudest, savage exhibition of Nature at her worst without, and we three, we elegant three within." There was a connection between the ad (with a woman pictured on a bed), and he deceased body on the bed next to Chancean unidentified movie, set in the South, in which a woman ("Miss Kittling") admonished her black buggy driver Alvin (who kept saying "Yowsa") to keep the horses out of the sun, and to keep his own hat and gloves on in his seatAs she departed from the estate for the last time from he garden, Louise bid Chance a melancholy goodbye, advising him o find a caretaker for himself:You""re gonna need somebody.