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", but 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 Jones's footage in "Rose Marie" be cut, including his rendition of the great Puccini aria "E lucevan le stelle" – and MGM agreed to Eddy's demand.