[1] It tells of a widower (Moon Kwan) who is concerned that his daughter, Chain-ying (Tso Yee-man), spends too much time at the theater.
But Chain-ying is already pregnant and dies after giving birth to a baby girl (played by Bruce Lee, then aged three months).
The widower's former employees look after the baby, who, like her mother, grows up (Tso Yee-man again) with a passion for the theater.
After a series of complications, tears, and comic moments, she is eventually reunited with her father, Wong, when he visits the United States to perform in a national defense play (to aid China then at war), and they are finally reconciled with her aging, remorseful maternal grandfather.
[2] The making of Golden Gate Girl is the subject of a 2014 feature documentary titled Golden Gate Girls, directed by S. Louisa Wei, who constructed the story around the life and times of woman film pioneer Esther Eng.