She accepted Farquaad""s request for her hand in marriage before the sun set: "Will you be the perfect bride for the perfect groom?", and the two returned to the castle at DuLoc, while Shrek was adamant about returning home alone to his swamp.The Arrival in Moscow - With the Empress:The domineering Empress Elizabeth Petrovna (Louise Dresser) was enthroned on a gaudy imperial platform before a giant backdrop of a twisted, ghoulish, two-headed, avenging winged double-eagle statue.It""s a shame for you to come all the way up here and miss your amusement.Read it, doctor, the intimate journal of Miss Charlotte Vale - spinster....but you must pry.I insist that you do.There""s really nothing to frighten you off - a few snapshots, a memento or two.It""s a record of my last trip abroad with my mother.We were sailing up the coast of Africa.See - there""s a picture of our ship, a...steamer.You wouldn""t have known me then - I was twenty then.Pages of a book flip backwards to an eras-gone-by flashback where twenty-year old Charlotte is on her first voyage of love - kissing handsome ship""s officer Leslie Trotter (Charles Drake) on a sunny deck: "That was a scorcher," he tells her.A follow-up film,Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), also directed by Aldrich, placed Olivia de Havilland in Crawford""s co-starring role as Miriam (Davis"" cousin) opposite Bette as a haunted, desperate, and demented recluse spinster named Charlotte Hollis.