French movie star still to appear naked (4)
I believe the answer is:
tati
'french movie' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.
'star still to appear naked' is the wordplay.
'star still' becomes 'tat' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to appear' becomes 'shine' (shining is a kind of appearing).
'naked' means to look at the middle letters.
The centre of 'shine' is 'i'.
'tat'+'i'='TATI'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tati that I've seen before include "Jacques -, Fr. comedian" , "Jacques -- (Monsieur Hulot's Holiday)" , "Jacques ___ , French comic actor and film director, d. 1982" , "Jacques ----, French filmmaker" , "Creator of Monsieur Hulot" .)