  We report on exclusive decays of B mesons into final states containing
charmonium using data collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II storage
rings. The charmonium states considered here are J/psi, psi(2S), and chi_C1.
Branching fractions for several exclusive final states, a measurement of the
decay amplitudes for the B0 --> J/psi K* decay, and measurements of the B0 and
B+ masses are presented. All of the results we present here are preliminary.
