Her last major job with the Guild involved casting for the 1996 Broadway production and touring company of State Fair.
[1] Caro Jones became involved in television very early on in the medium's history after initially beginning her casting career in theater.
Jones cast for The United States Steel Hour, a live anthology series produced by the Theatre Guild in New York[2] which ran from 1953 to 1963 on ABC and CBS, where she cast actors such as Patty Duke, Sidney Pollack, Gene Hackman, William Shatner, Burgess Meredith, Johnny Carson, Martin Sheen and George C.
There she was in charge of casting for the television series Petticoat Junction, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and The Debbie Reynolds Show.
Her first casting job under the banner of her own company was for the 1976 John Avildsen film, Rocky, which starred Sylvester Stallone.
[1] Caro Jones died on September 3, 2009, of multiple myeloma in Los Angeles at the age of 86 after suffering from the disease for fourteen-years.
[1][2] She was survived by two grandchildren, Jacqueline and Chase Eiseman, her brother, William Jones and two nieces, Caro Norris and Penelope Swanson.