Bugsy cut was released on DVD, containing an additional 13 minutes not seen in the theatrical version. Gangster Bugsy Siegel, who works for Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, goes to Los Angeles and instantly falls in love with Virginia Hill, a tough-talking Hollywood starlet. The two meet for the first time when Bugsy visits actor George Raft on the set of "Manpower". He buys a house in Beverly Hills, planning to stay there while his wife and two daughters remain in Scarsdale. Bugsy is in California to wrestle control of betting parlors away from gangster Jack Dragna. Mickey Cohen robs Dragna's
Ida Lansky influence on Lansky was photographer, Carlotta Corpron, who worked in the Bauhaus style and who taught at Texas Woman's University. Lansky was one of her students and was introduced to the avante-garde, Bauhaus ideal by Corpron. Lansky's earlier photographs were considered "regular," though they show an "interest in reflection, distortion and abstraction." Lansky was invited by Henry Holmes Smith to participate in a group exhibition, "Photographer's Choice", at Indiana University. "Photographer's Choice" included works by Ansel Adams, Nathan Lyons and other well-known photographers. Lansky was considered one of only a few artists in the mid-twentieth century who saw photography as