Girl storing gold for American film director (5)
I believe the answer is:
ivory
'film director' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'girl storing gold' is the wordplay.
'girl' becomes 'ivy' (woman's name).
'storing' indicates putting letters inside.
'gold' becomes 'or' ('or' is the heraldic name for gold).
'ivy' enclosing 'or' is 'IVORY'.
'for american' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ivory that I've seen before include "Creamy white" , "Yellowish white - material from tusks" , "What may be carved" , "Elephant tusk material" , "Key perhaps" .)