Neural defect has bachelor telephone dead actress (6,6)

'actress' is the definition.
(I know that Lauren Bacall is a actress)

'neural defect has bachelor telephone dead' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'neural' is 'lauren' which is located in the answer.
'bachelor' could be 'ba' (the qualification: Bachelor of Arts) and 'ba' is located in the answer.
'telephone' could be 'call' (call is a kind of telephone) and 'call' is found in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?