Ebba Mona

Biography

Ebba Mona was born in Norway in 1904 as Ebba Mona Hoeg. Following the divorce of her parents, she came to the United States with her mother where she formed a popular vaudeville dance act with her sister, Tula Belle, called "The Angelus Sisters". She worked as a chorus girl in the late 1920s until the mid-1930s. At various points in her career, Ebba used the names Ebba Mona, Ebba Angelus, Ebba Holly, and Ebba Hollingshead, the latter of these being the surname of her stepfather, producer Gordon Hollingshead. In her later years, she made the news when an Academy Award statue that had once been awarded to the Hollingshead, who had died in 1952, was recovered after having been lost for years. Ebba was tracked down and reunited with the Oscar of her beloved stepfather, a feel good story that appeared in newspapers around the country. A divorced mother of one son, she passed away in 1985 at the age of 81.