As a child, she was underweight and began going to an athletic club in an attempt to build strength and gain weight.

Their mother was keen to have them follow a career in show business, especially when their father died suddenly, leaving the family with few options to make a living.

When Preisser was nine years old, an actor noticed the two sisters performing acrobatics on a sidewalk near their home, and his interest led to their working in vaudeville and later for the Ziegfeld Follies in 1934 and 1936.

Preisser continued to appear in musical comedies over the next few years, and played the character Dodie Rogers in seven The Teen Agers films with Freddie Stewart, Frankie Darro and Noel Neill from 1946 to 1948.

After appearing in a Los Angeles theater production of Annie Get Your Gun, Preisser retired from acting.