"[3] Jones appeared on Broadway a few times, including 1933's Roberta and the short-lived 1934 revival of Bitter Sweet[4] after debuting in Boccacio in 1931.

Jones made a brief appearance in the 1936 Nelson Eddy–Jeanette MacDonald film Rose Marie, singing music from Charles Gounod's Romeo et Juliette and Giacomo Puccini's Tosca.

According to Merchant of Dreams, Charles Higham's biography of Louis B. Mayer, Eddy, who apparently considered Jones a rival and a potential threat, asked that most of the footage of Jones in Rose Marie be cut, including his rendition of the tenor aria E lucevan le stelle from Tosca and MGM agreed to Eddy's demands.

In his final film for MGM, Everybody Sing (1938) with Judy Garland and Fanny Brice, Jones introduced the pop standard "The One I Love".

The same year, he made a guest appearance, as himself, in the Olsen and Johnson musical Crazy House, where he again performed "The Donkey Serenade".

During the 1980s, Jones appeared in several stage productions of Man of La Mancha,[7] Paint Your Wagon, Guys and Dolls, and Carousel.