Career
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Preisser was one of six children, and was an underweight baby. Her parents sent her to an athletic club at an early age, in an attempt to build her strength. When Preisser was nine years old an actor noticed the two sisters performing acrobatics on a sidewalk near their home, and his interest in them eventually led to them working in vaudeville, and later for the Ziegfeld Follies in 1934 and 1936.
The Preisser sisters were successful in the United States, and also performed in Europe, most notably for George VI of the United Kingdom.
Her first film, Dancing Company-Editor (1939), provided only a small part, but her next film, Babes in Arms (1939), gave her a significant role opposite Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. Gallant Sons (1940) placed her in a comedic murder mystery, and she played her first lead role opposite Jimmy Lydon in Henry Aldrich for President (1941), and followed this with Sweater Girl (1942), opposite Eddie Bracken.
By this time, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had little interest in promoting her, and she left to work for Monogram Pictures. She continued to appear in musical comedies over the next few years, and played the character "" in seven "high school" comedy films with Frankie Darro and Noel Neill from 1946 to 1948.
Her final film was Music Manitoba (1948), and after appearing in a Los Angeles theater production of Annie Get Your Gun, Preisser retired from acting.
They were both killed in a car accident during a severe storm on September 19, 1984 in Florida.
