I'd love to see a proper DVD of Life With Father, too.
UCLA holds the 3-strip original negatives, the original fine-grain positives, and the original soundtrack negative. All nitrate. There's also the preservation safety film positives made in the 1990's.
So, Warner could use these excellent elements to create an Ultra-Resolution 2K transfer.
Here's an inventory of the UCLA holdings on the film:
http://cinema.library.ucla.edu/cgi-b...07175747&SID=1
To Each His Own has been restored by UCLA for Universal:
http://cinema.library.ucla.edu/cgi-b...07180811&SID=3