Golden Age Hollywood actress to tear tabloid up (7)
I believe the answer is:
gardner
'golden age hollywood actress' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'tear tabloid up' is the wordplay.
'tear' becomes 'rend' (rending is a kind of tearing).
'tabloid' becomes 'rag' (informal term for a tabloid newspaper).
'up' is a reversal indicator (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'rend'+'rag'='rendrag'
'rendrag' back-to-front is 'GARDNER'.
'to' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for gardner that I've seen before include "Writer of detective books" , "US actress. wife of Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra, d. London, 1990" , "Ava and Earl Stanley" , "Erle Stanley ..., Ava ..." , "Ava --, US actress" .)