- With her husband, director Gary Graver, she worked to preserve the legacy of Orson Welles. Gary Graver worked on many movies with Welles. The couple had been piecing together footage Gary shot in the 1970s for Welles' unfinished film "The Other Side of the Wind". They had hoped to complete and release it.
- Female karate champ
- She had leukemia but died of a staph infection.
- Although she does not appear in the movie, she is one of the women featured on the poster for the original "The Slumber Party Massacre".
- Interviewed in the book "Invasion of the B-Girls" by Jewel Shepard.
- Died one year after her husband Gary Graver. He died from cancer. Kessler suffered from Lukiemia but died of a staph infection.
- She worked closely with her husband Gary Graver in connection with his work as Orson Welles' longtime cinematographer focusing on Welles' unfinished work. After Graver's death, Kesner continued to run his equipment and film operations until her death in 2007.
- Kesner had a part in the film "The Student Body". She was particularly proud of the movie because it was the film the two men watch at the Texas drive-in in the movie "The Thin Blue Line".
- Step-mother of Chris Graver and Sean Graver.
- In 1986, received a "Gold Scroll" for outstanding achievement for her performance in Firecracker (1981) from the Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror Films.
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