 The role of Susanna Dickinson, the only adult Anglo survivor of the  siege and the mother of the only child Anglo survivor, was much  larger in the script than what it ended up being in the final  version of the film. The role was one of the major roles in the  script and the actress who portrayed Susanna, Laura Clifton, was the  only female member of the permanent cast for the film. After Disney  finished editing the theatrical release of the film, the character  has only one line (screaming for her husband, Almaron Dickinson,  during a cattle stampede) and a few appearances in other scenes  (during Travis speech and in the chapel during the siege) and is  not even identified anywhere in the movie so that audiences would  know who this significant figure in Texas history was. In fact, the  role, far from being Laura Cliftons big break, actually hurt her  career because of how insignificant it ended up being in the  theatrical release.